The title says it all, we'll be talking about Search from an Elastic perspective, focusing on developers and operators. Since launching Elasticsearch over a decade ago to today, Great search capabilities and experiences are more important and strategic than ever. Whether you are selling products online, building an app to match people, places and things, analyzing structured and unstructured data, Elastic has you covered. This is a technical podcast so you'll learn about the internals of Elasticsearch and Lucene as well as RAG, Semantic and Keyword search and much more. Join us!
Elastics new High Performance Serverless cloud hosting product
In this episode of You Know for Search, host Steve Mazak is joined by Uri Cohen, head of Elastic’s platform product team, to discuss Elastic’s new serverless deployment option. They cover how serverless eliminates the need to manage nodes, sizing, upgrades, or sharding by using a stateless architecture that separates storage from compute. This re-architecture boosts performance—nearly doubling indexing throughput—and introduces features like adjustable “search power” for cost vs. speed tradeoffs, automatic weekly upgrades, and instant access to the latest capabilities like Lucene 10. Designed for simplicity and scalability, serverless is positioned as the preferred way for most users to run Elastic in the cloud.
3 Apr 2025
Talking Search at Github with David Tippett
In this episode, I sit down with David Tippett, a search engineer at Github. We chat about his background and journey into the world of search, focusing on his role at GitHub and how he is improving their search experiences. Our conversation explores the complexities of building effective search, including understanding user intent, the importance of data and indexing, and the challenges of measuring search relevance. We also touch upon the evolving landscape of search with the emergence of AI and multimodal approaches. To close this episode, we talk about the difficulties in justifying investment in search and the critical role it plays across various functions within a platform like GitHub. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did
11 Dec 2024
Quantization: The Important Bits
Elastic's Sr Principal engineer Ben Trent discusses the importance of quantization and its applications in search, including the company's latest feature, BBQ.
11 Nov 2024
Function calling with RAG, more than meets the eye
In this episode, we learn how you can do function calling as part of your RAG application built on Elasticsearch with Ashish Tiwari, our Developer Evangelist in India!
5 Sept 2024
HNSW / KNN Deep dive with Mayya Sharipova
I really enjoyed talking to Mayya Sharipova, an Elastic Engineer who been with the company for 7 years! She has worked on many parts of Lucene and Elasticsearch and in this episode we discuss how our HNSW implementation came to be, how KNN works and when you should use it vs Brute force and more talk about Speed, because it's so important to drive engagement with the apps our community and customers build on top of the Elasticsearch stack.
Show Notes:
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsearch-lucene-vector-database-gains (https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsearch-lucene-vector-database-gains)
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/multi-graph-vector-search (https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/multi-graph-vector-search)
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/how-to-deploy-nlp-text-embeddings-and-vector-search (https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/how-to-deploy-nlp-text-embeddings-and-vector-search)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tune-knn-search.html
15 Aug 2024
Vector Search and the Need for Speed with Chris Hegarty
Join me as I speak with Chris Hegarty, our resident Lucene PMC Chair, Java and Search expert at Elastic. You can find Chris on X/Twitter at https://x.com/chegar999 (https://x.com/chegar999).
In this episode we discuss many of the latest performance improvements Chris and team have brought to Lucene and Elasticsearch by leveraging newer capabilities in Chips and the JDK itself. You'll learn what SIMD, FFM, FMA and more TLA's mean and why they matter. All in all, I learned a lot in this episode and I hope you find it as informative and fun as I did. Thanks Chris for taking the time to speak with me!!
Links from the show:
https://www.elastic.co/blog/accelerating-vector-search-simd-instructions (https://www.elastic.co/blog/accelerating-vector-search-simd-instructions)
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/vector-similarity-computations-fma-style (https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/vector-similarity-computations-fma-style)
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/vector-similarity-computations-ludicrous-speed (https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/vector-similarity-computations-ludicrous-speed)
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/lucene-and-java-moving-forward-together (https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/lucene-and-java-moving-forward-together)
https://openjdk.org/projects/panama/ (https://openjdk.org/projects/panama/)
25 Jul 2024
Episode 1 with Search PM Serena Chou
In our inagural episode I speak with Serena Chou, our PM for Search at Elastic. We cover our Vector search capability, how we are being leveraged in the RAG workflow, our Roadmap and more. I hope you enjoy this episode and it leaves you excited for more. Upcoming episodes will be with our engineers and architects talking about how we built ES and Lucene, recent advancements in capabilities and performance and much much more.
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