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Prashanth Rao discusses trade-offs and exploration of vector databases, including indices, hosting options, and query optimization. The podcast covers the evolution of vector databases in AI workflows and combining them with large language models for natural language querying. The hosts also explore future possibilities of vector databases and integration of graph databases for enhanced knowledge retrieval.

The podcast discusses the fall of Stack Overflow, research on adversarial attacks on large language models, Google's proposal for a web environment integrity API, Python Enhancement Proposal 703, and why chatbots are not popular.

Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need to run the ultimate Plex server — that’s what homelab is about. Let’s do this. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Subscribe to Techno Tim on YouTube Ubiquiti / Unifi Proxmox Ubuntu Rocky Linux 45drives - Storinator AV15 Docker Portainer Kubernetes Plex Pi-Hole Tailscale ZFS (OpenZFS) Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system (with Matt Ahrens) Protectli Sysracks Rackstuds ASUS ProArt Z790 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today’s show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 10 year journey, his transition from Docker to Dagger, Dagger’s community-led growth model, their focus on open source and community, how it works, and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Passbolt – It’s time for a new password manager. Read why Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Solomon Hykes – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: dagger.io docs.dagger.io Changelog & Friends #6: Even the best rides come to an end Ship It! #48: Launching Dagger Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Una and Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck and Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. They play games to guess the favorite programming language, workplace benefits, and essential SaaS. They also delve into their feelings about GitHub co-pilot and discuss recent developments in CSS.

Roger Peppe and Bryan Boreham join Mat and Kris to discuss the state of Generics in Go, including benefits like cleaner code, solving problems with few lines of code, and simplifying processes with the slices package. They also explore limitations and challenges, potential performance implications, and technical aspects of implementing generics at compile time. The discussion covers unpopular opinions, code formatting, balance between simplicity and help, tech debt, debt management, risk-taking in interactions, and collaboration despite mistakes.

It was an amazing week in AI news. Among other things, there is a new NeRF and a new Llama in town!!! Zip-NeRF can create some amazing 3D scenes based on 2D images, and Llama 2 from Meta promises to change the LLM landscape. Chris and Daniel dive into these and they compare some of the recently released OpenAI functionality to Anthropic’s Claude 2. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: What is NeRF article Llama 2: Llama 2 site Llama 2 paper OpenAI Code Interpreter Anthropic Claude 2 Learning resources: Hugging Face guide to Llama 2 LLaMA 2 - Every Resource you need OpenAI code interpreter article Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint’s InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub’s Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050). View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Speakeasy – Instantly create SDKs that make API integration easy for your users. Check it out today. Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, bringing the power of the cloud on prem, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Bryan Cantrill – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, XSteve Tuck – LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Crate tui On the Metal with Jeff Rothschild Oxide specs The Changelog #496: Oxide builds servers (as they should be) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code-level APM built for developers! Stay ahead of latency issues and trace every slow transaction to a poor-performing API call or database query. Sentry is the only developer-first application monitoring platform that shows you what’s slow, down to the line of code. Use the code CHANGELOGMEDIA and get the team plan FREE for six (6) months. Drata – Put security and compliance on autopilot. Build trust with your customers and scale securely with Drata, the smartest way to achieve continuous framework compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Featuring:Steve Yegge – GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant steve-yegge-platform-rant-follow-up.md Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, “Why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph”) All You Need Is Cody Cody is Cheating A good day with Jeff Steve Yegge on Wikipedia Why I left Google to join Grab Cody AI Yin and Yang on Wikipedia Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!