Rinha de Backend 2026 - Part 2

The main principle to solve this edition is Vector Search, so before entering this topic, I decided to understand what embeddings are, which is fundamental to understand and implement a Vector Search. Embeddings are a way of representing objects like images, audio and texts as points in a vector space. The locations of those points are helpful to find similar objects. Example For better understanding, we will use examples of fruits represented as vectors. Each dimension of the vector represents an attribute of the fruit; we will use: sweetness and color. Each dimension value must be between 0 and 1, the green color is equal to 0, and the red color is equal to 1. ...

May 11, 2026 · 1 min · 130 words

Rinha de Backend 2026 - Part 1

Rinha de Backend in a code challenge where you compete with other developers to build a backend under CPU, memory, and architecture constraints. The theme of the year is fraud detection using vector search. For more information, please visit the Rinha de Backend Repository . This project already had previous editions. In this one, I will document the process of building my solution to this Code Challenge. This edition has a base principle that I’m unfamiliar with: Vector Search. The next posts will be reporting my progress and what I’m learning in the process. ...

May 11, 2026 · 2 min · 327 words

Hello World

Hi everyone. I will be posting the main topics I’m studying. My goal with this blog is to keep this acknowledgement documented for myself and to share knowledge throughout the process. I want to write all the content in English first, even though my English isn’t good. This will help me to improve my English. And I encourage you, even if your English ins’t very good, to improve it. Let’s see what happens.

April 23, 2026 · 1 min · 73 words