Our Journey to 35K+ GitHub Stars: The Real Story of Building Milvus from Scratch

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This post chronicles the historical development of Milvus, from its initial conception as a solution for storing and searching vector embeddings to the significant architectural shift with Milvus 2.0. It details the motivations behind rebuilding the system with a decoupled storage-compute architecture to address enterprise needs for scalability and operational simplicity. The post also discusses the impact of RAG on Milvus's growth and the strategic decision to launch Zilliz Cloud as a managed service, highlighting its performance improvements and security features.