Ethan Steininger
Ethan Steininger

Ethan Steininger

Former lead of MongoDB's Search Team, Ethan noticed the most common problem customers faced was building indexing and search infrastructure on their S3 buckets. Mixpeek was born.

72 posts

The 3072-Dimension Problem

Why Vector Search Alone Can't Find What's in Your Videos

Multimodal Taxonomies: How to Classify Video, Images, Audio, and Text with One Category System

Object Storage Comparison 2026: 21 Providers, Real Pricing, and the Gotchas Nobody Tells You

Building a Kalshi Trading Bot with Semantic Search and LLM Extraction

The Multimodal Data Warehouse: Why Unstructured Data Needs Its Own Snowflake

ColQwen2 + MUVERA: Multimodal Late Interaction Retrieval That Actually Scales

We Built a Pre-Publication IP Clearance Pipeline. Here's What We Learned.

I Benchmarked 5 Video Embedding Models So You Don't Have To

Gemini Embedding 2 is Live: embed multiple files into one vector

Query Preprocessing: Semantic Search With Large Files

AI Video Analysis for Sports: Build Automated Highlight Reels, Archive Search, and Performance Analytics

How Mixpeek runs distributed multimodal ML on Ray: architecture, patterns, and production lessons

Political Ad Disclaimers: How ZIP+4 Targeting Creates Jurisdiction Conflicts

IAB Contextual Classifier: Taxonomies for Videos and Images

Semantic Crons: Replace LLM Polling with Vector-Based Alerts

Why SNF Documentation Is a Multimodal AI Problem

Semantic Chunking Strategies for Multimodal RAG

What is Agentic Retrieval? The Next Evolution of RAG

Video Intelligence: From Raw Footage to Searchable Data

Keyword Search vs Semantic Search vs Hybrid Search: A Developer's Guide

How to Build a Multimodal Search Engine in 2025

Building a Production-Ready VLM Inference Server in Rust

Video Analysis AI: The Complete 2026 Guide

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Deep dive into multimodal AI, data processing, and best practices from our engineering team.

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