About this podcast
Vector Podcast is here to bring you the depth and breadth of Search Engine Technology, Product, Marketing, Business. In the podcast we talk with engineers, entrepreneurs, thinkers and tinkerers, who put their soul into search. Depending on your interest, you should find a matching topic for you -- whether it is deep algorithmic aspect of search engines and information retrieval field, or examples of products offering deep tech to its users. "Vector" -- because it aims to cover an emerging field of vector similarity search, giving you the ability to search content beyond text: audio, video, images and more. "Vector" also because it is all about vector in your profession, product, marketing and business.
Podcast website: https://www.vectorpodcast.com/
Dmitry is blogging on https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/
Episodes
The newest 20 of 38 episodes
- Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Charlie Hull on role of Search in AI era · 29 min · Season 4 Episode 7This episode was recorded LIVE during Berlin Buzzwords 2026 Charlie's site and blog: https://thesearchjuggler.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliehullsearch/…
- Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Julien Nioche on Greenops and new open source project SPRUCE · 25 min · Season 4 Episode 6This is a LIVE discussion with Julien Nioche, the creator of SPRUCE, open source greenops framework. We recorded LIVE at Berlin Buzzwords 2026. Cameraman is Zoom's AI and it…
- Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Trey Grainger & Doug Turnbull, Role of Search in modern AI and new course · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 5This episode was recorded LIVE at the Berlin Buzzwords 2026 YouTube version: https://youtu.be/acOGVynTVpM The cameraman is pure Zoom's AI ;) The Course: "AI-Powered Search…
- Beyond Hyperspace - Ohad Levi on Hardware Accelerated Search and Agentic Memory · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 4In this episode we sat down with Ohad Levi, co-founder and CEO of Hyperspace, to discuss the harware-accelerated search product he has built to address the search latency…
- AI Webinar - Building an AI-Ready Data Backbone · 1 h 18 min · Season 4 Episode 3Webinar I gave with AI Camp and Aiven on AI-ready data backbone, and specifically how OpenSearch unlocks AI-powered search and log analytics…
- Trey Grainger - Wormhole Vectors · 1 h 19 min · Season 4 Episode 2This lightning session introduces a new idea in vector search - Wormhole vectors! It has deep roots in physics and allows for transcending spaces of any nature: sparse, vector…
- Economical way of serving vector search workloads with Simon Eskildsen, CEO Turbopuffer · 1 h 15 min · Season 4 Episode 1Turbopuffer search engine supports such products as Cursor, Notion, Linear, Superhuman and Readwise. Craft decaf & half caf coffee, 25% discount…
- Adding ML layer to Search: Hybrid Search Optimizer with Daniel Wrigley and Eric Pugh · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 11Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.com Haystack US 2025: https://haystackconf.com/2025/ Federated search, Keyword & Neural Search, ML Optimisation, Pros and Cons of…
- Vector Databases: The Rise, Fall and Future - by NotebookLM · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 10https://www.vectorpodcast.com/ I had fun interacting with NotebookLM - mostly for self-educational purposes. I think this tool can help by bringing an additional perspective over…
- Code search, Copilot, LLM prompting with empathy and Artifacts with John Berryman · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 9Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.com Get your copy of John's new book "Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large Language Model–Based…
- Debunking myths of vector search and LLMs with Leo Boytsov · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 800:00 Intro 01:31 Leo's story 09:59 SPLADE: single model to solve both dense and sparse? 21:06 DeepImpact 29:58 NMSLIB: what are non-metric spaces 34:21 How HNSW and NMSLIB…
- Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Alessandro Benedetti - LLMs in Solr · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 7This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNB70TbQUBE Alessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion…
- Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Sonam Pankaj - EmbedAnything · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 6This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dVIPBxHJ1kQ 00:00 Intro 00:15 Greets for Sonam 01:02 Importance of metric learning 3:37 Sonam's background: Rasa, Qdrant 4:31 What's…
- Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Doug Turnbull - Learning in Public · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 5This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPC_xzqJ0o 00:00 Intro 00:30 Greets for Doug 01:46 Apache Solr and stuff 03:08 Hello LTR project 04:42 Secret sauce of…
- Eric Pugh - Measuring Search Quality with Quepid · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 4This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L7UjjPz5wM 00:00 Intro 00:21 Guest Introduction: Eric Pugh 03:00 Eric's story in search and the evolution of search…
- Sid Probstein, part II - Bring AI to company data with SWIRL · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 3This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fafSkzKpfw 00:00 Intro 01:54 Reflection on the past year in AI 08:08 Reader LLM (and RAG) 12:36 Does it need…
- Louis Brandy - SQL meets Vector Search at Rockset · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 2This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiwqVlDpsl8 00:00 Intro 00:42 Louis's background 05:39 From Facebook to Rockset 07:41 Embeddings prior to deep learning…
- Saurabh Rai - Growing Resume Matcher · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 1This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx6BH9Z_gBA Topics: 00:00 Intro - how do you like our new design? 00:52 Greets 01:55 Saurabh's background 03:04 Resume…
- Sid Probstein - Creator of SWIRL - Search in siloed data with LLMs · 1 h 32 min · Season 2 Episode 7Topics: 00:00 Intro 00:22 Quick demo of SWIRL on the summary transcript of this episode 01:29 Sid’s background 08:50 Enterprise vs Federated search 17:48 How vector search covers…
- Atita Arora - Search Relevance Consultant - Revolutionizing E-commerce with Vector Search · 1 h 32 min · Season 2 Episode 6Topics: 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…
