Rockset VP of Engineering discusses real-time analytics and spam fighting

Lewis Brandy, the VP of Engineering at Rockset, joins the Stack Overflow podcast to discuss the intersection of real-time analytics and spam fighting. Lewis shares his background in software engineering and his experience working on infrastructure for fighting spam at Facebook. He highlights the importance of building scalable spam fighting systems and explains how real-time analytics and AI can be combined with spam fighting to enhance effectiveness. Lewis also dives into the challenges of incremental indexing in vector search algorithms and the importance of metadata filtering in hybrid search. He concludes by showcasing a case study from Whatnot, a company that leverages live streaming and vector recommendations for buying and selling.