Atita Arora - Search Relevance Consultant - Revolutionizing E-commerce with Vector Search Vector Podcast

Topics:
00:00 Intro
02:20 Atita’s path into search engineering
09:00 When it’s time to contribute to open source
12:08 Taking management role vs software development
14:36 Knowing what you like (and coming up with a Solr course)
19:16 Read the source code (and cook)
23:32 Open Bistro Innovations Lab and moving to Germany
26:04 Affinity to Search world and working as a Search Relevance Consultant
28:39 Bringing vector search to Chorus and Querqy
34:09 What Atita learnt from Eric Pugh’s approach to improving Quepid
36:53 Making vector search with Solr & Elasticsearch accessible through tooling and documentation
41:09 Demystifying data embedding for clients (and for Java based search engines)
43:10 Shifting away from generic to domain-specific in search+vector saga
46:06 Hybrid search: where it will be useful to combine keyword with semantic search
50:53 Choosing between new vector DBs and “old” keyword engines
58:35 Women of Search
1:14:03 Important (and friendly) People of Open Source
1:22:38 Reinforcement learning applied to our careers
1:26:57 The magical question of WHY
1:29:26 Announcements
See show notes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVM6TUSfn3E