For the Sake of Search
Welcome to For the Sake of Search! An unaffiliated podcast that talks about all things search engineering. We'll be covering: search infrastructure, when should I use X search vendor, how to do search relevancy, describing search to your grandmother.
And many many more things. If you would like to be a guest on the show please reach out! I am @dtaivpp on Relevancy Slack and @taidesu on Bluesky.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Milvus - The First Open Source Vector DB
HNSW and IVF in the same index? This week we have James (Xiaofan Luan) the VP of Engineering from Zilliz to talk about some of the magic that makes Milvus special. They use all sorts of techniques fr…
The Tools of Relevance
How can you be sure your search experience is good? All it takes is the right tools. Eric and I walk through what the "right tools" are for the search engineers tool belt. Make sure to check out Quep…
Why shouldn't you fine tune?
So much recently I've seen companies obsessing over fine tuning. Should you fine tune your language models? Nicolay from AISBACH Data Solutions joins me this week as we talk through the many challeng…
Hiring for Search
You wouldn't hire a network engineer to build your front end would you? Then why hire just any software engineer for search?! In this episode we talk with Brian Pedersen founder of TheSearchBar.ai to…
Elasticsearch's New License and Rebuilding Hacker News Search with Trieve
Elasticsearch is open source again? Maybe? Join Nick (@skeptrune) and I as we discuss what Elasticsearchs new license means for its users. Along with this we take a dive into Trieve (trieve.ai) a sou…