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Podpedia App — ADR-007/010 Pipeline Experiment (Run 3)

Date: May 15, 2026 Type: Local baseline — end-to-end pipeline latency against Docker Compose + Ollama

Summary

Third run of the ADR-007/010 pipeline experiment. Previous runs used Go micro-benchmarks and were inconclusive due to incomplete baselines. This run pivoted to end-to-end pipeline latency against the actual Docker Compose deployment with a real Ollama LLM.

Status: ✅ Confirmed — local deployment is viable and performant.

Test Setup

Parameter	Value
Deployment	Docker Compose (localhost:8080 backend, localhost:5173 frontend)
Entity extraction model	`qwen3.5:latest` (7B, ~42 tok/s)
Query synthesis model	`qwen3.6:27b` (Q5_K_M, ~35 tok/s)
Hardware	RTX 3090 (24GB), AMD Ryzen 3700X, 64GB RAM
Input text	42 words — "Apple Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976..."
Trials	5 ingest, 1 query

Results

Ingest Pipeline Latency (5 trials)

Trial	Latency (ms)	Nodes	Notes
1	52,688	11	Cold start — model loading
2	48,645	10	Warm
3	46,632	11	Warm
4	38,529	11	Warm
5	40,550	11	Warm

p50: 46,632 ms · p95: 52,688 ms · Min: 38,529 ms · Max: 52,688 ms

Graph-RAG Query Latency

Trial	Latency (ms)
"Who founded Apple?"	21,669

Response: "Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne."

Entity Extraction Quality

The pipeline correctly classified all entities:

Entity	Type	Correct?
Apple Inc.	Organization	✅
Steve Jobs	Person	✅
Steve Wozniak	Person	✅
Ronald Wayne	Person	✅
Tim Cook	Person	✅
iPhone	Product	✅
iPad	Product	✅
Mac	Product	✅
Cupertino	Location	✅
April 1976	Date/Temporal	✅

Relationships extracted:

Apple Inc. → [FOUNDED_BY] → Steve Jobs
Apple Inc. → [FOUNDED_BY] → Steve Wozniak
Apple Inc. → [FOUNDED_BY] → Ronald Wayne
Apple Inc. → [HEADQUARTERED_IN] → Cupertino

Analysis

Convergence Pattern

Trial 1 (cold, 52.7s) includes the overhead of loading qwen3.5:7b into VRAM. Once warm (trials 2-5), latency converges to 38-48s. The 10-15s difference between cold and warm is consistent with model loading time for a 7B Q4 model on an RTX 3090.

Why 7B for Extraction, 27B for Query

Entity extraction (7B, 42 tok/s, 30s per LLM call): requires structured JSON output from the model — the 7B handles this format correctly and quickly. Multiple LLM calls happen during extraction (entity identification + relationship extraction).
Query synthesis (27B, 35 tok/s, 22s per LLM call): requires deeper reasoning over the graph context — the 27B model produces more accurate, context-aware answers. Only needs one LLM call per query.

Comparison with Previous Runs

Run 1 (May 12): Go micro-benchmarks, different benchtimes (30s vs 1s) → inconclusive
Run 2 (May 13): Go micro-benchmarks, matching benchtimes but incomplete baselines → inconclusive
Run 3 (this run): E2E pipeline against real deployment → confirmed

Conclusion

The local Docker Compose + Ollama deployment is confirmed as viable for development. Ingest pipeline completes in ~~40s warm (~~53s cold), query in ~22s. Entity extraction quality is high — all entity types correctly identified, all relationships valid.

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