Weaviate Podcast #31. 

Weaviate 1.17!! This is a massive release for Weaviate, debuting Replication, Hybrid Search, BM25, Faster Startup and Import Times, as well as other fixes! Replication and Hybrid Search are two massive features for Weaviate, and we really hope you enjoy the description of them from the podcast. Please also check out the Weaviate 1.17 release blog post for more information as well - https://weaviate.io/blog/2022/12/Weaviate-release-1-17.html!  

This is also a very special podcast as we welcome Parker Duckworth for the first time to the podcast! Parker gave an excellent explanation of Replication and unpacked some of the questions we are seeing around Ref2Vec!  Thank you so much for listening to the podcast! Please check out the newest version of Weaviate!  

Chapters 

0:00 Weaviate 1.17! Welcome Parker! 

0:28 From Italy to 1.17 

2:04 Replication work in Italy 

3:58 Replication Details 

6:28 Use Cases of Replication 

13:12 Product Engineering 

16:24 Hybrid Search 

21:30 Open Question around Hybrid Search 

23:15 Rank Fusion 24:00 BEIR Benchmarks 

27:28 What is Ref2Vec? 

29:08 Bipartite Graph Ref2Vec Example 

29:30 Graphs in Weaviate 

34:25 Ref2Vec Cascading Updates 

37:45 Custom Aggregation Functions in Ref2Vec 

39:08 Adding Recency Bias in Ref2Vec 

41:18 Startup Time Improvements 

41:50 Batch Latency Improvement