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The Stack Overflow Podcast

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Handling Asynchronous Rebuilds and the Challenges of Incremental Indexing

This chapter discusses the speakers' approach to handling asynchronous rebuilds of the index and their system of optimizing for throughput or latency. They delve into the challenges of incremental indexing for vector search and explain why it is a difficult problem to solve, emphasizing the necessity of approximate search algorithms for high dimensional vectors.

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