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Kathleen DeRusso
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Engineer and search nerd at Elastic
Reposted by Kathleen DeRusso
Introducing Elastic Agent Builder, designed to give your agents the best context and tools. Build precise agents fast, connect all your data where it already lives in Elasticsearch, and create custom tools for any use case.

Learn more: www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
October 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reposted by Kathleen DeRusso
👋 Welcome to Elastic Dev — your new go-to for hands-on demos, cheat sheets, concept explainers & more. Get the latest on search, data & GenAI straight from the source.

Expect:
- Practical demos & how-tos
- Posts & technical deep dives
- Open source updates
+ more

Ready, set, build. Hello, world.
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's exciting to see semantic_text become more flexible to use for both general and expert use cases. And we're not done yet! #elasticsearch #vectorsearch #semanticsearch
Simplifying semantic search: native match, knn & sparse_vector support - Elasticsearch Labs
Explore the changes that leveled up semantic search and learn how to use those features, including native match, knn, and sparse_vector support.
www.elastic.co
March 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Closing out the year with a final blog on query rules as a retriever. This is a particularly exciting change because it ensures that your business rules as defined in query rules work seamlessly with reranking strategies such as semantic reranking and RRF. It's available in serverless and 8.17.0!
Ensuring business rules work seamlessly with semantic search - Elasticsearch Labs
Harness the power of query rules combined with semantic search and rerankers.
www.elastic.co
December 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM