Elastic

You know, for search, an Elastic podcast

Technology EN ↓ 7 episodes

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!

Author

Elastic

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Technology

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Latest episode

Sep 30, 2025

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Episodes

Elastics new High Performance Serverless cloud hosting product 30.09.2025

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 in...

Talking Search at Github with David Tippett 03.04.2025

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 measur...

Quantization: The Important Bits 11.12.2024

Hey everyone, in this episode I speak to Ben Trent, one of Elastics Sr Principal engineers, about Quantization. We recorded this episode a while ago and since then, launched our latest quantization feature, BBQ . So this will be a good primer in prep for leveraging that feature which we touch on briefly at the end. I plan to record another episode covering BBQ specifically so hopefully you stay cu...

Function calling with RAG, more than meets the eye 11.11.2024

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!

HNSW / KNN Deep dive with Mayya Sharipova 05.09.2024

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 cus...

Vector Search and the Need for Speed with Chris Hegarty 15.08.2024

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 . 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...

Episode 1 with Search PM Serena Chou 25.07.2024

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 per...

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