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Beyond keyword search: A guide to AI-powered search in OpenSearch

When building real-world search experiences such as e-commerce catalogs, enterprise search, and documentation portals, you quickly...

When (and when not) to use Apache Kafka® Diskless Topics

I recently wrote a Visual Guide to Apache Kafka Diskless Topics, which introduces the main ideas behind Kafka Diskless Topics and ...

Understanding OpenSearch® vector field type—Part 2: sparse_vector

Overview: Beyond semantic search In part 1, we explored how knn_vector field type enables semantic search by retrieving results ...

Understanding OpenSearch® knn_vector: A Developer's Guide to Semantic Search

What Is knn_vector in OpenSearch? knn_vector is OpenSearch's dedicated field type for storing dense vector embeddings and ...

Migrating Ansible AWX: From Docker to a Kubernetes framework

NetApp recently started using Kubernetes with our fleet automation tooling on the NetApp Instaclustr Platform. It took us a few ...

Under the hood: Engineering faster ClickHouse® performance

Speed matters in data analytics. When you are processing billions of rows, even small performance improvements compound into ...

IBM, Confluent Acquisition: What it means for your data strategy

Industry mergers like IBM's Confluent acquisition may be signaling a shift in the data stack. Learn how consolidation can impact ...

The end of neutrality? Navigating the consolidation of the modern data stack

We are witnessing a profound shift in the technology landscape. While recent headlines have focused heavily on IBM’s major ...

Freezing streaming data into Apache Iceberg™—Part 2: Using Iceberg Topics

In this 2-part blog series, we are exploring the use case of “freezing” streaming Apache Kafka data into (Apache) Iceberg! In ...