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

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