MongoDB is fast by default, until it isn't. Once your collections grow past a few hundred thousand documents, unindexed queries start doing full collection scans, and latency climbs fast. Indexes are the single most impactful thing you can do to fix this.
But MongoDB gives you a lot of index types, and picking the wrong one — or using the right one incorrectly — can leave performance on...
If there's one thing I've learned within the last six months as I've been building ChatClipThat.com, it's that even with AI assisted development, orchestration and DevOps is a very deliberate process.
Between my orchestration VPS, my Xano backend for routing and database, and my GCS GPU pipeline, I've found myself in a unique position of being able to, first hand (from a learner's persp...
Everyone's talking about RAG. Before I built one myself, it sounded really fancy. I knew it had something to do with providing documents to AI, and honestly, I thought it was badly named. I still think they should have picked a better name.
But now that I've built one from scratch, I get it. And it's actually simpler than I expected.
This article is for anyone who is new to RAG ...
