Wilson Lin
Blog for Wilson Lin
DatabasesAlgorithms / data structuresAI / MLPerformance / optimization
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- 6 from 9 May 2024 to 3 Nov 2025
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2025 5
- Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads
- Building a high recall vector database serving 1 billion embeddings from a single machine
- From 3 TB RAM to 96 GB: superseding billion vector HNSW with 40x cheaper DiskANN
- From Kevin Bacon to HNSW: the intuition behind semantic search and vector databases
- Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings