Relevan wouldn’t exist without open source. We’re built on @opensearch.org and @valkeyio.bsky.social but open source shouldn’t be a one-way transaction. We're excited to contribute code, knowledge, and improvements back. Join the beta @ relevan.dev

Agents break the old “query then click” feedback loop. They branch, refine, and use results without clicking. We’re working on that problem in the open through the UBI standard: github.com/o19s/ubi/issue

Relevan launches its beta Wednesday, August 19. We’re building search for a world where agents configure it, query it, and help improve it. No more need for a dedicated search engineer. Join the waitlist: relevan.dev (click Join Beta) #AgenticSearch #AISearch

I have come to a newfound hatred of slacks account system. I hated it before but now that Google allowed me to change my email handle slack seems to be the only place that is freaking out. Despite claiming to support OAuth slack requires me to set a password to change the email on my account...

"who's that?" moment when someone asked me what I thought about Glean and Coveo Should I drop a dis track?

Another day. Another person asking, can't we just replace GitHub search with Azure AI search. no.. you cannot... 🎤

I hate poking the GitHub commits search cluster. That thing is a behemoth and any mess up means probably a month or more of cleanup jobs. That said it needs a lot of work since it's gotten so large. We're doing some much needed segment merge work.

Wow today's just the day, first the DNC and now I got my first live lead. Can't wait to see what happens with the remaining 4 days this week 😆

Dang got my first Do Not Contact for my startup. Gotta have pretty tick skin for these types of things. I believe theres a world for better search! Just need to find the people who are aligned with the mission. :D

Prospecting for my startup is eating my soul alive. I got pretty thick skin but not hearing back after all the outreach I have done is killing me. For every 1 outreach I do I have like 7 that I disqualify. I mean we are going for a niche but I didn't realize ti was that niche.

This is definitely the best photo of me from Haystack. For context, I am keeled over as a pain response to someone simplifying my career to flipping on a switch 😆

Eric Pugh@dep4b.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A three part story!

How do you determine what users want to see at internet scale? We ask Tito Director of Product Management at @yahoo.bsky.social on this next episode of For the Sake of Search! #SearchRelevance #Ecommerce #Search youtu.be/BarHKGXknXA

Understanding users at internet scale with Tito Sierra

YouTube video by Relevan-Dev

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A watched website never breaks. Literally had my marketing site crash twice yesterday for two different people. Loading it up to debug today? NUFING sat there for 15 min like a dummie waiting for it to break.

I just got cup-jacked at Starbucks. The barista accidentally put some one else's drink into my cup and handed it out. Instead of realizing: hey... this isn't a normal Starbucks cup... and it doesn't have a lid... they person just took it. 🤪

Why do editors, devrel, and the like feel the need to make so many asinine edits to my blogs? Like you changed "With search being" -> "Given search is" Is it more clear? Idk It just rubs me wrong when I've gone through these changes 3 times with each subsequent editor changing the voice.

I am 2 months into building my saltwater aquarium tracker tanki.dev and sent a newsletter out asking for feedback. And my users showed up! #1 bit of feedback? "Make auth sessions longer" - people who track aquariums typically do so only once per week and auth logged out after 7 days.

Me logging into outlook this morning 🥴 this is not the land of milk and honey anymore.

GitHub is going for the other four nines of availability. 9.9999% available.

WELL. That was not the result I was expecting

David Tippett@taidesu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Not me about to take GitHub down for the second time today.

Not me about to take GitHub down for the second time today.

I am doing my best to resist building an operator for Elasticsearch. I dont think I can for much longer though. We need a stable way to automatically change cluster settings. Rolling upgrades? Reduce merge pressure and increase shard move speed. Low QPS times? Lets bump up merge concurrency.

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Dang. My Compute blade project is literally pandoras box. I initially got a bunch of the Uptime Compute blades to run an OpenSearch cluster. After months of waiting I get the blades in, go to start up OpenSearch and BOOM. Craps out because the Amazon Linux containers can't run on ARMv7. 🧵

New favorite move. Introduce drama for no reason. Example: I got my wife ice cream. Before handing it to her I assured her no blood was spilled getting her ice cream. The concern that followed was priceless.

Me ships a really cool update that makes issues and prs pages faster. GitHub:

I just realized my understanding of the Elasticsearch/OpenSearch refresh + translog operations was INCORRECT. I'd always had the mental model that refresh or translog flush would write segments. That's partially true...

Now with copilot instead of writing just a few hundred lines of bad code a week I can scale to TENS OF THOUSANDS of lines of bad code a week.

The amount of logistical things needed to build a startup is so frustrating. I don’t want to build a company I want to ship code that helps people. Today I: - created a bank account - migrated emails - mailed so compliance documents

Okay, so not only did I do a thing with Tanki I am actually starting a serious company: relevan.dev We're building the future of relevancy based search. We're pre-launch (despite me launching this technically here). But we want to talk to small e-commerce businesses about their search problems.

Got bored… made an app this weekend to help me track my aquarium tanki.dev In case anyone else with a #reeftank wants a free place to track parameters over time 👀