Storage & Retrieval Patterns

Indexing strategies, caching layers, search engines, vector databases, time-series databases, and graph databases.

Topics

Lessons

Glacier, cold storage, tape-equivalent tiers

Redis, Memcached, CDN caching, application-level caching patterns

Elasticsearch, Solr, full-text search, inverted indices

Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, pgvector — embedding storage for AI