Some High-Tech Get Up From Rockset – Or So They Claim

Let me break this out for you, if you’re ready to stop drooling over the latest cat video, that is. Rockset, some fancy tech startup you’ve probably never heard of, just declared something so utterly groundbreaking, it’s got the tech world buzzing like flies around a dumpster. They’ve figured out, brace yourself, applications may need real-time indexing on vector embeddings AND traditional databases. Can you believe it? Yeah, me neither.

We’re Surely Doomed – Implications of this High Tech Gobbledygook

Let’s try to make sense of this from the comfort of our humble, non-million-dollar-filled lives, shall we? What this means, assuming anyone really understands the blob of tech jargon, is that these digital tomfooleries called applications could benefit from an immediate tagging system that stretches over your grandpa’s, blast from the past, traditional database as well as those cutting-edge vector embeddings. I’m sure you’re thrilled at this prospect. Applications becoming even more pervasive, more intelligent, and above all, quicker to remind you of your miserable existence with incessant notifications. Splendid, isn’t it?

Shut Up Already – The Hot Take

Okay, so here’s the skinny – a bunch of tech geeks at Rockset are working overtime to make your applications more ‘efficient’. Because that’s obviously what the world is lacking, right? You know, forget poverty, hunger, or global warming. Who cares about those when you still have to wait a whole two seconds for your latest Twitter notification? Priorities, ladies and gentlemen, priorities. Either we’re heading down a path of relentless inefficiency stamped out by organizations like Rockset, or we’re due for a tech bubble burst louder than your ego when your Instagram post doesn’t get enough likes. Whatever it is, hang on to your knickers, because it’s going to be a wild ride.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/rockset-to-boost-real-time-database-for-ai-era-with-44m-raise/