Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.
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What I Read: Search Infrastructure.
Posted on :: Tags: search, embedding, metric, classification, data engineering, database, relational, SQL, Hierarchical Navigable Small World, nearest neighbor, semantic, natural language processing, rank

https://tech.instacart.com/how-instacart-built-a-modern-search-infrastructure-on-postgres-c528fa601d54?gi=73b640a452f5
How Instacart Built a Modern Search Infrastructure on Postgres
Ankit Mittal, Vinesh Gudla, Guanghua Shu, Akshay Nair, Tejaswi Tenneti, Andrew Tanner
May 28, 2025
“…we recognized the need for a hybrid retrieval solution that leverages the strengths of both traditional and embedding-based approaches in a single datastore.”