Oct 25Vald Roadmap 2022 WinterA few months ago, we informed the 2022 summer roadmap. We’re sorry that some features could not be released due to many spot issues. Once again, this post shows the latest Vald roadmap. Lookback 2022 summer We’re focusing on the many tasks in 2022 summer. …Kubernetes3 min readKubernetes3 min read
Oct 7Release Announcement: Vald v1.6.0A new version of v1.6.0, a minor update, has been available since this week. This update introduces several new features: OpenTelemetry support Circuit Breaker This post describes the background and mechanism of OpenTelemetry and Circuit Breaker. What is OpenTelemetry? Vald is highly scaleable, user can easily scale each component in Vald. As the…Vald4 min readVald4 min read
Jul 20Roadmap in summer 2022Vald has been focused on developing stable operations since its release in 2019. Nowadays, the Vald project has reached a turning point. We will be focusing our efforts on improving various features and usability improvements. In advance, we would like to share a roadmap of the various plans we will…Vald2 min readVald2 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Apr 28Vald released the new Vald official ingress filter: vald-onnx-ingress-filterVald released the official ingress filter component named vald-onnx-ingress-filter. This post describes the introduction of it and the tutorial for using it. What is the ingress filter? The ingress filter is one of Vald’s components that can do some pre-processing on a request before processing it by connecting the ingress filter gateway component. Users can…Kubernetes6 min readKubernetes6 min read
Apr 5Release Announcement: Vald v1.5.0A new version of v1.5.0, a minor update, has been available since last week. The principal update is Vald applies a new feature, CoW(Copy on Write), for safety backup with Persistent Volume. This post describes the background and mechanism of CoW. For more details of changes, please refer to CHANGELOG. What is the CoW? …Vald4 min readVald4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Mar 25Continuous profiling enabled by Pyroscope in ValdProfiling is the way of showing the application resource usage. Continuous profiling is the process of continuously collecting application performance. It helps developers to analyze it more deeply. Nowadays, the demand for continuous profiling is increasing. Vald also applies continuous profiling using Pyroscope from v1.4. This post briefly introduces the…Vald6 min readVald6 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Feb 25Linear Search API is available from v1.4.0From v1.4, Vald supports Linear Search API since NGT released Linear Search CAPI from v1.13.8. This post introduces what Linear Search is and the usage of Linear Search API. NOTE: Current Linear Search API has a timeout setting as the mandatory setting. Please set a long time as `Search_Config.timeout`. …Vald6 min readVald6 min read
Feb 17Release Announcement: v1.4.0We will release v1.4.0 this week. From v1.3, Vald has some updating! The main update is here: LinearSearch of NGT is now available on Vald! FP16 mode for NGT is available! Pyroscope for continuous profiling Vald cluster is available! Added original gRPC status codec Improved search config and error code …Vald3 min readVald3 min read
Sep 22, 2021The Unit Test Strategy In ValdThe quality of the software is mainly divided into two categories: Software functional quality Software structural quality Software functional quality reflects how the software meets the requirement or specification. …Go10 min readGo10 min read
Sep 16, 2021Publishing a Notebook with chiVe datasetThis is an introduction to the background and content of vald-demo repository that was recently released. Why did we create this repository? Vald is a highly scalable distributed fast approximate nearest neighbor dense vector search engine. Vald is a newly made OSS project and is still not popular yet. Now, we are working on growing the…Vald5 min readVald5 min read
