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Claude Code Release Pulse

Claude Code Release Pulse

Claude Code is closed source. The changelog is the only window we get, so I graphed 385 releases of it.

September 4, 2026

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Float Bloat: vector serialization gone wrong

Float Bloat: vector serialization gone wrong

Your embeddings are float32. Somewhere in your app they get promoted to float64 and grow a tail of digits that mean nothing. You pay to store, sh…

August 27, 2026

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Good architecture isn’t always designed upfront

Good architecture isn’t always designed upfront

Building Bonsai’s Query Logs feature taught me that good architecture isn’t only designed upfront. Sometimes you discover it by prototyping, benc…

August 24, 2026

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Announcing Query Logs

Announcing Query Logs

Customer search query logs are now available in Bonsai Elasticsearch and OpenSearch cluster dashboards.

August 17, 2026

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How Bonsai Saved A Customer $48,000 in Cloud Spend

How Bonsai Saved A Customer $48,000 in Cloud Spend

When Scaling Doesn't Help: How Bonsai Found and Fixed What Was Actually Wrong

August 10, 2026

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How to Really Design Search for a Database

How to Really Design Search for a Database

A practical guide to designing a single search index for your entire database, with a working example using the Chinook music store.

June 24, 2026

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Agentic Search Models with OpenSearch and Elasticsearch

Agentic Search Models with OpenSearch and Elasticsearch

We introduce agentic tool-based retreival models, and show how they are shaping the future of search quality.

June 5, 2026

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Managed Elasticsearch and OpenSearch on Render with Bonsai

Managed Elasticsearch and OpenSearch on Render with Bonsai

Securely bring your Bonsai managed Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters to your Render.com deployments

May 20, 2026

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Why Your Cluster Composition Matters, and Why You'll Never Have to Think About It

Why Your Cluster Composition Matters, and Why You'll Never Have to Think About It

When you run search on Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, your data doesn’t just live in one place on one server. It lives in a cluster, or a group of …

May 20, 2026

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When to use Vector Search

When to use Vector Search

This brief non-technical article will explain exactly why vector search helps, and also shows why it can hurt, your search and agent relevance.

April 28, 2026

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Using Language Servers with Direnv and Nix in Zed

Using Language Servers with Direnv and Nix in Zed

Language servers need access to the correct respective language binaries, here's how to do it in Nix.

March 20, 2026

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Search Kōans

Search Kōans

Search engineers often see problems that require a philosophical approach. You may find these kōans stick with you for long term contemplation.

December 5, 2025

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