Just a notice that RFP for haystack, https://haystackconf.com/ , has gone out. Proposals due jan 9th. Conference april 24th and 25th.

I'll probably submit the recent autocomplete work as a talk. Something like the following. I don't like any of these titles yet and the abstract surely needs help too, but will ponder on it.

Titles?

Running millions of hits per second on a laptop

Elasticsearch and Tensorflow, an offline evaluation story

Exporting explains

Abstract:

What if we could export the scoring equation along with all the inputs and variables, and run this equation outside of elasticsearch? Simple queries can then be run on a laptop at a rate of several million hits per second. This opens up a variety of optimization techniques such as coordinate ascent or hyperopt to tune the query variables including boosts, tie breakers, similarity parameters, etc.