Vector Podcast is here to bring you the depth and breadth of Search Engine Technology, Product, Marketing, Business. In the podcast we talk with engineers, entrepreneurs, thinkers and tinkerers, who put their soul into search. Depending on your interest, you should find a matching topic for you -- whether it is deep algorithmic aspect of search engines and information retrieval field, or examples of products offering deep tech to its users. "Vector" -- because it aims to cover an emerging field of vector similarity search, giving you the ability to search content beyond text: audio, video, images and more. "Vector" also because it is all about vector in your profession, product, marketing and business.
Podcast website: https://www.vectorpodcast.com/ (https://www.vectorpodcast.com/)
Dmitry is blogging on https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/ (https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/)
Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Charlie Hull on role of Search in AI era
This episode was recorded LIVE during Berlin Buzzwords 2026
Charlie's site and blog: https://thesearchjuggler.com/ (https://thesearchjuggler.com/)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliehullsearch/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliehullsearch/)
Search Relevance Slack (7000 search professionals): https://join.slack.com/t/relevancy/shared_invite/zt-42nhd2z7n-c8QAsDCYU8hFi8c2pRrXKg (https://join.slack.com/t/relevancy/shared_invite/zt-42nhd2z7n-c8QAsDCYU8hFi8c2pRrXKg)
Charlie's panel at bbuzz, featuring yours truly among a group of distinguished search and ML people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y)
Time codes
00:00 Intro
00:42 Charlie's take on this year's Berlin Buzzwords
01:55 Based on the panel: Charlie's first encounter of AI
04:55 Is preserving search still a question?
5:48 Charlie's "old" search technique to improve quality of search
7:58 Explainability gap
9:03 Did LLMs change Charlie's life
12:07 Query Understanding is still a complex topic
13:14 Vector search or not
17:28 Meetups and places to learn with Charlie
19:25 Charlie's message to the search makers
23:00 What is fundamentally missing in our space
26:03 Where to follow Charlie's work
Show notes:
- Upcoming Vespa conference: http://www.vespaai.live/ (http://www.vespaai.live/)
- Where find Charlie? On meetups: http://www.searchmeetups.com/ (http://www.searchmeetups.com/)
- http://www.thesearchjuggler.com/ (http://www.thesearchjuggler.com/)
- https://searchmeetups.com/ (https://searchmeetups.com/)
- A neat trick for protecting numbers when using fuzzy search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34afYwYqyM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34afYwYqyM)
3 Aug 2026
Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Julien Nioche on Greenops and new open source project SPRUCE
This is a LIVE discussion with Julien Nioche, the creator of SPRUCE, open source greenops framework. We recorded LIVE at Berlin Buzzwords 2026.
Cameraman is Zoom's AI and it goes a little crazy at times zooming on Julien and zooming back out. As usual, audio version will be available. Go to https://www.vectorpodcast.com/ (https://www.vectorpodcast.com/)
He gave a talk about SPRUCE at the conference: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/spruce-it-up-open-source-greenops-at-scale/ (https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/spruce-it-up-open-source-greenops-at-scale/)
Timcodes:
00:00 Intro
00:16 Julien's background
01:36 What is SPRUCE
2:51 Greenops vs FinOps
6:09 Reasons cloud providers won't go deeper on greenops
7:09 Ways to deploy SPRUCE
15:06 Cultural shift needed for Greenops
17:39 How to measure impact of AI agents and LLMs
Shownotes:
- SPRUCE and green ops: https://opensourcegreenops.cloud/latest/ (https://opensourcegreenops.cloud/latest/)
- SPRUCE on GitHub: https://github.com/digitalpebble/spruce (https://github.com/digitalpebble/spruce)
- Julien's company: https://digitalpebble.com/ (https://digitalpebble.com/)
- Apache StormCrawler: https://stormcrawler.apache.org/ (https://stormcrawler.apache.org/) and GitHub: https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler (https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler)
- SPRUCE is based on Apache Spark: https://spark.apache.org/ (https://spark.apache.org/)
- "AI is here - time to throw away our search engines?" panel hosted by Charlie Hull at Berlin Buzzwords 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y)
- Estimate and track the environmental footprint of GenAI models at inference. Ecologits: https://ecologits.ai/latest/ (https://ecologits.ai/latest/)
- Evaluate the environmental impact of digital technologies across organizations. Boavizta: https://boavizta.org/en (https://boavizta.org/en)
21 Jun 2026
Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Trey Grainger & Doug Turnbull, Role of Search in modern AI and new course
This episode was recorded LIVE at the Berlin Buzzwords 2026
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/acOGVynTVpM (https://youtu.be/acOGVynTVpM)
The cameraman is pure Zoom's AI ;)
The Course: "AI-Powered Search: Modern Retrieval for Humans & Agents"
aipoweredsearch.com/live-course?promoCode=vector-podcast
Discount Code for course (20% off): "vector-podcast"
AI-Powered Search (Book, Content, Community): https://aipoweredsearch.com/ (https://aipoweredsearch.com/)
Timecodes
00:00 Intro
00:30 Doug's and Trey's impression of the conference
01:16 How modern AI changed search (if any)
05:48 How to bring AI techniques into existing search engines on a budget
10:44 What the AI-Powered Search course includes
18:02 Staying hands-on
18:47 Guest's favourite topic that keeps them up at night
27:40 Message to the builders of search tech
32:55 Search continues to be challenging and exciting
Shownotes:
- Upcoming course in detail (grab promo code above to save 20%): https://aipoweredsearch.com/articles/the-frontier-of-ai-search-ai-powered-search-modern-retrieval-for-humans-agents/ (https://aipoweredsearch.com/articles/the-frontier-of-ai-search-ai-powered-search-modern-retrieval-for-humans-agents/)
- Doug's blog on search, agents, RAG, LLM as a judge and more: https://softwaredoug.com/ (https://softwaredoug.com/)
- AI-Powered Search: https://aipoweredsearch.com/ (https://aipoweredsearch.com/)
- Berlin Buzzwords:
- MICES: https://mices.co/ (https://mices.co/)
- Future of Search conference: https://berlinsearchweek.com/future-of-search/ (https://berlinsearchweek.com/future-of-search/)
- Women of Search: https://www.women-of-search.org/ (https://www.women-of-search.org/)
- "AI is here - time to throw away our search engines?" panel hosted by Charlie Hull at Berlin Buzzwords 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y)
- Dmitry's prototype of Wormhole vectors idea with OpenSearch: https://aiven.io/blog/beyond-hybrid-search-traversing-vector-spaces-with-wormhole-vectors (https://aiven.io/blog/beyond-hybrid-search-traversing-vector-spaces-with-wormhole-vectors)
- Dmitry's blog on Medium: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/ (https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/)
- Dmitry's Tech Stories on Substack: https://substack.com/@dmitrykan (https://substack.com/@dmitrykan)
- Follow me on LinkedIn for Search updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrykan/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrykan/)
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