For the Sake of Search

David Tippett
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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.

Episodes

  1. 14 MAY

    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 from indexes with multiple retrieval sources and the Starling algorithm. Make sure to check out Milvus at https://milvus.io and the Starling paper at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02116

    44 min

  2. 15 APR

    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 Quepid for testing your relevancy! https://github.com/o19s/quepid. Also, make sure to check out Haystack the Search Relevance conference!

    1 hr

  3. 13/11/2024

    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 challenges that come when you fine tune language models. He's spent the last several years working with customers to get the most out of their LLM's and has some insights to share.

    1h 5m

  4. 30/09/2024

    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 talk a bit more about the challenges of hiring search engineers. There tends to be a big disconnect between companies that want to hire search engineers and engineers that are looking for companies that value their skills. Thankfully Brian is here to help give some advice so that everyone can get what they are looking for!

    35 min

  5. 03/09/2024

    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 source available framework for building search and RAG workflows. How better to test a new product than rebuilding search for Hacker News?!

    53 min

  6. 19/08/2024

    Good search in Postgres?!

    We talk with Philippe from ParadeDB about search on Postgres. Historically search on Postgres has been really bad but it doesn't have to be anymore. Let's go into a bit of the why search on Postgres is the way it is. This will help us understand why it got to where it is and how ParadeDB is making it better. Session Notes: Why ParadeDB picked AGPL for their LicensePutting DuckDB into Postgres

    45 min
  • 6 Episodes

About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    David Tippett
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © TippyBits LLC 2024
  • Show Website
    For the Sake of Search