Build a Serverless Search Engine with DynamoDB Vector Search and AWS CDK

<p>Whenever someone asks me to add search to an application, I try to find ways around it. The implementation itself isn't the problem, it's everything that comes with it: extra

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<p>Your RAG application works perfectly with 1,000 documents. You push it to production, upload 10 million vectors, and suddenly your query latency jumps from 50ms to 5 seconds.

<p>Simple, keyword-based database queries are often inadequate for user searches because they struggle with complexities such as synonyms, slang, and relevance judgments. They