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moteDB 0.5.1 Is Out: What 18 Months of Building an Embedded Database for Robots Taught Me

Dev.to · mote 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

moteDB 0.5.1 Is Out: What 18 Months of Building an Embedded Database for Robots Taught Me

Last Tuesday our warehouse robot forgot what a red box looked like. Not metaphorically. It had the...

Building a Multimodal Memory Store in Rust: What We Actually Learned

Dev.to · mote 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Building a Multimodal Memory Store in Rust: What We Actually Learned

Why would anyone build a database in Rust? I've been asked this at least thirty times. Usually by...

I Burned 3 Weeks Tuning Vector Search Before Realizing the Problem Was the Index, Not the Algorithm

Dev.to · mote 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I Burned 3 Weeks Tuning Vector Search Before Realizing the Problem Was the Index, Not the Algorithm

I was getting 200ms latency on vector search with only 50,000 embeddings. For a drone that needs to...

I Built a Database Engine in Rust for My Robot and Learned That SQLite Was the Wrong Battle

Dev.to · mote 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I Built a Database Engine in Rust for My Robot and Learned That SQLite Was the Wrong Battle

The robot started ignoring me on a Tuesday afternoon. Not dramatically — no sparks, no screaming...

I Tried 4 Async Runtimes on a Raspberry Pi — Only One Didn't Make Me Want to Throw It Out the Window

Dev.to · mote 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I Tried 4 Async Runtimes on a Raspberry Pi — Only One Didn't Make Me Want to Throw It Out the Window

Last month I spent three weeks doing something that sounds simple: making an HTTP client work...