I was at Yahoo almost a decade ago, when vector search within Vespa was first being rolled out in production use cases. It was already serving similarity search requests for Flickr back then.
Even though I'm with Zilliz/Milvus now, I wholeheartedly support and recommend folks check out and try Vespa. Congrats to the Vespa team!
EDIT: For folks on Twitter, you should follow Jo (https://twitter.com/jobergum) from Vespa if you aren't already. Great combo of technical content, hot takes, and vector database memes!
Huge congratulations to JKB, Frode, Kim, and the rest of the Vespa team! We are infinitely grateful for all of your help and advice. We are lucky enough to have Vespa as the foundation for our developer-focused enterprise search product.
Having worked with both Solr and Elastic in past search companies, it’s incredible to be able to deploy into Fortune 50 enterprises without any doubts about stability and with all the benefits of a cutting-edge hybrid engine.
Can’t wait to watch you on the next leg of your journey!
Off topic... looking forward to more engineers moving to Mastodon. I have Twitter/X blocked at DNS level and still fairly frequently encounter interesting accounts that I can't check out.
Nobody's saying it's anybody else's problem - they're just looking forward to more content being on Mastodon (or elsewhwere) as people move away from X.
It's not that weird, you are reading too much into the subtext. The web is in a transitory state, platforms change, people move. Wishing for more content to be available on a specific platform without blaming the author is an acceptable comment in my view.
Is there a particular mastodon server or set of servers that the engineering community is favoring? I know it technically doesn’t matter in a federated network, but curious anyway.
I'm from Pinecone. We use proprietary indexes. We could've used HNSW but decided the high memory consumption (ie, costly at scale) and slow index updates (ie, data gets stale) won't cut it for production use cases.
Oh I read a lot of HNSW stuff on your/Pinecone blog series. (Great learning resource btw, well done!) So I assumed you were using HNSW already. It's a news to me that you don't use it.
Even though I'm with Zilliz/Milvus now, I wholeheartedly support and recommend folks check out and try Vespa. Congrats to the Vespa team!
EDIT: For folks on Twitter, you should follow Jo (https://twitter.com/jobergum) from Vespa if you aren't already. Great combo of technical content, hot takes, and vector database memes!