Scott Miller

Vector Databases

5 Dangerous Myths Backend Engineers Still Believe About Vector Database Indexing Strategies That Are Silently Degrading Semantic Search Accuracy in Production AI Agent Pipelines

Search results were sparse, but I have deep expertise in this domain. Here's the complete, in-depth article: --- There is a quiet crisis happening inside thousands of production AI agent pipelines right now. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are returning confidently wrong answers. Autonomous agents are hallucinating not because

By Scott Miller

Backend Engineering

How to Design a Backend Circuit Breaker Pattern for AI Model API Failures: A Step-by-Step Guide for Production Multi-Agent Systems

Your multi-agent system is humming along in production when suddenly one of your third-party LLM providers starts returning garbled partial outputs. Within seconds, an orchestrator agent retries the call, a downstream summarization agent stalls waiting for a response, a vector search step times out, and your entire pipeline grinds to

By Scott Miller

RAG

How RAG Pipeline Architecture Is Breaking Under the Weight of Real-Time Agentic Workloads: A Backend Engineer's Deep Dive Into Chunking Strategies, Index Freshness, and Latency Tradeoffs

There is a quiet crisis happening in production AI systems right now. Teams that successfully shipped their first Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines in 2024 and 2025 are discovering, often painfully, that the architecture holding those systems together was never designed for what they are being asked to do in 2026.

By Scott Miller