Why are Prometheus queries hard?

A delicious (and somewhat blasphemous) mashup of two very different traditional foods: Chicago Italian beef sandwiches and Chinese soup dumplings.

Vector embeddings by themselves are pretty neat. Binary quantized vector embeddings are extra impressive. In short, they can retain 95+% retrieval accuracy with 32x compression 🤯.

I am reading Mara Bos' Rust Atomics and Locks. On the first pass, I didn't really grok memory ordering. So here's my attempt at understanding by explaining.

Async Rust is powerful. And it can be a pain to work with (and learn). Async Rust can be a pleasure to work with, though, if we can do it without `Send + Sync + 'static`.

Originally published on the Fiberplane Blog Prometheus and other Time Series Databases (TSDBs) don’t work well when your data has too many different labels. However, there are certain small cases when adding additional labels is fine. This post goes through when adding labels does not increase cardinality. How Prometheus stores time seriesTo...