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As someone obsessed with speed, I have to say that your comment missed the mark. Speed is not throughput or scale. Speed in the context of search is all about
by freediver 5y ago
As someone obsessed with speed, I have to say that your comment missed the mark.
Speed is not throughput or scale. Speed in the context of search is all about result latency. Do my users wait 400ms to get search results or 700ms?
If you want to talk about ludicrous speeds, then compare it with solutions that actually provide ludicrous vector search speeds such as faiss, NGT and other libraries mentioned here http://ann-benchmarks.com http://ann-benchmarks.com and talk about what you use under the hood, innovations you made to make search faster, analyze how much network latency overhead is there when using your product and how does your (globally distributed?) infrastructure help keep that minimal. I'd be interested to read about that.
What it feels like after reading your comment, is that what you are really selling is scale, not speed.
- gk1 5y agoI really appreciate the feedback! We’ll tie this directly into two articles we’re already working on, one about search speed (err, latency) and another about the distributed infrastructure that makes it work.