Max Irwin

When two people shop in drastically different ways, can your catalog search satisfy them both? In this candid interview, we dive into different e…

When measuring speed and throughput for search technology, you need to test real-world scenarios.

Your embeddings are float32. Somewhere in your app they get promoted to float64 and grow a tail of digits that mean nothing. You pay to store, sh…

Customer search query logs are now available in Bonsai Elasticsearch and OpenSearch cluster dashboards.

A practical guide to designing a single search index for your entire database, with a working example using the Chinook music store.

We introduce agentic tool-based retreival models, and show how they are shaping the future of search quality.

Securely bring your Bonsai managed Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters to your Render.com deployments

This brief non-technical article will explain exactly why vector search helps, and also shows why it can hurt, your search and agent relevance.

Search engineers often see problems that require a philosophical approach. You may find these kōans stick with you for long term contemplation.

When operating large search clusters with heavy traffic, there are certain risky operations you should avoid. In this post, we present a comprehe…

A straightforward guide to scaling an autocomplete solution in Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

The first and only straightforward guide for implementing a good autocomplete solution in pure Elasticsearch or Opensearch, because all the other…

It happened. The decision was made, and the directive has come. You have to ship "AI" in the next quarter or two. Now what?