Not all AI tools are created equal. Let’s take a closer look at what RAG can (and can’t) do for you. Is it just me, or is everyone talking about RAG right now? RAG, or Retrieval Augmented Generation, is an approach to interacting with large language models that has been gaining significant attention in recent months in the world of software development. And for good reason! This approach offers a practical solution for leveraging large language models (LLMs) in applications with specialized or private domain knowledge, allowing for quick market deployment by engineering prompts instead of fine-tuning the model.

In this episode of The Builders, EDB Cloud CTO Ben Anderson discusses the concept of freedom in the context of database vendors and software, focusing on how organizations can achieve freedom from vendor lock-in, especially in the realm of open source databases like Postgres.

Just as organizational leaders continue to try to get their arms around the hybrid cloud or multi-cloud architectures best suited for business workload, application, and database performance—and the cloud service providers (CSPs) ready to accommodate those requirements —along comes polycloud. Hold up… what’s this “polycloud” about? In this blog, we examine the polycloud concept, compare it to...

This blog post explains why EDB is building EDB Cloud, and why we think it matters.