Ankit Mittal

Ankit Mittal, former Senior Engineer at Instacart and now at ParadeDB, shares his journey of enhancing search infrastructure by transitioning from Elasticsearch to PostgreSQL. He discusses the challenges of managing fast-moving grocery inventory and how consolidating search functions into one PostgreSQL cluster optimized performance. Ankit highlights the benefits of using PostgreSQL extensions for complex queries and the trade-offs between search systems, emphasizing improved efficiency and reduced latency in data retrieval.