Monthly performance summary for 2025-08: Delivered a new configurable keep_alive option for Ollama embedders in the haystack-core-integrations repository, enabling memory retention control and potential improvements in reuse of loaded models. The keep_alive parameter is wired through to the Ollama client's embed/embeddings methods, ensuring end-to-end support from request handling to model loading behavior. Unit tests were updated to cover the new parameter, increasing test coverage and reducing regression risk. This change was committed as 3c2aac142cb4dba7e79fc60a92a5e27c9540f8bb with attention to lint checks in PR #2228. Major bugs fixed: none reported in this scope this month. Overall impact and accomplishments include improved deployment efficiency, more predictable memory usage, and strengthened test coverage, contributing to more stable and scalable embeddings pipelines. Technologies/skills demonstrated include Python development, API integration with Ollama, unit testing, code linting, and PR workflow.