Today I learned that building a successful open-source project like Milvus, which became a leading vector database, involved starting from scratch due to a lack of suitable existing solutions, making the difficult decision to completely rewrite the core system (Milvus 2.0) for better scalability and cloud-nativity, and continuously engaging with the community to evolve the product. It also highlighted that the company behind Milvus, Zilliz, focuses on the “unglamorous” but critical aspect...
