All Stories

Vespa Product Updates, August 2020

Introducing NLP with Transformers, Grafana how-to, Improved GEO Search Support, Query Profile Variants Optimizations, & Build on Debian 10

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
27 Aug 2020

Vespa Product Updates, June 2020

Announcing support for approximate nearest neighbor vector search which can be combined with filters and text search with state-of-the art performance

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
05 Jul 2020
Introducing NLP with Transformers on Vespa

Introducing NLP with Transformers on Vespa

We’ve been working a lot lately on evaluating Transformer models in Vespa. Here we show how and share a bit on how we view the benefits of inference in Vespa....

Lester Solbakken
Lester Solbakken
02 Jul 2020
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Vespa - Part 1

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Vespa - Part 1

In this blog post we explore how the Vespa team selected HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graphs) as the baseline approximate nearest neighbor algorithm for extension and integration in Vespa....

Geir Storli
Geir Storli
30 Jun 2020
The hardest problem in computing

Photo by Artiom Vallat on Unsplash

The hardest problem in computing

What is the hardest problem in applied computing? My bet is on big data serving — computing over large data sets online.

Jon Bratseth
Jon Bratseth
26 Jun 2020

Vespa Product Updates, May 2020

The May 2020 update includes Improved Slow Node Tolerance, Multi-Threaded Rank Profile Compilation, Reduced Peak Memory at Startup, Feed Performance Improvements, & Increased Tensor Performance.

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
30 May 2020

Vespa Product Updates, April 2020

The April 2020 update includes Top-K hits, smarter data migration and CloudWatch integration. Contributing to Vespa is now easier with the release of a CentOS 7 dev environment.

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
06 May 2020

Vespa.ai and the CORD-19 public API

The Vespa team has been working non-stop to put together the cord19.vespa.ai search app based on the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) released by the Allen Institute for AI.

Thiago Martins
Thiago Martins
01 Apr 2020

Why most computation will become online

The most advanced companies of the world are busy moving their computation over data online. But why?

Jon Bratseth
Jon Bratseth
02 Mar 2020

Vespa Product Updates, February 2020

Advances in Vespa features and performance in February include LightGBM support, improved tensor performance, benchmarking guide and query builder library

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
28 Feb 2020

Vespa Product Updates, January 2020

The January 2020 update includes information about new tensor functions, updated sizing guides and various performance improvements.

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
31 Jan 2020

The big data maturity levels

By now it’s well known that making effective use of data is a competitive advantage. But how advanced is your organization at making use of data?

Jon Bratseth
Jon Bratseth
21 Jan 2020