Eric Pugh
dep4b.bsky.social
Eric Pugh
@dep4b.bsky.social
Search and Gen AI (?) guy!
Nice visual of AI Agent concept in Deep Research at the #openseachcon Unconference. Thanks Jakub of @zetaalpha for sharing.
September 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Want more Python and less JSON for building algorithms for search in #OpenSearch? Buttonhole these members of the Tech Steering Committee! #opensearchcon
September 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thanks David Smiley and Jason Gerlowski for hosting the Search Track Hackathon at @apache.org Community/Code conference:
August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I love that at @mices.co BarCamp that each group does a quick read out to everyone so I do lt get FOMO!
June 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Planners (query, indexer, etc) are key to these new complex systems that make nondeterministic choices…. Learning about how Aryn manages its complex processes.
April 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There are two kinds of people in search. Those who think ETL is bad and those who don’t even think about. Thanks for sharing @paradedb.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Me some days…
April 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I love the passion!
April 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Thanks Aruna for sharing why search is hard!!!
April 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Great conclusions on evaluating search from PM perspective
April 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
April 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I think it’s going to be a good day…
April 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It’s Haystack Week!
April 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Looking forward to hosting a BBQ with all the early arrival Haystackers tonight. It's going to be an awesome week of learning and exchanging ideas!

Shout out to my daughter Alanna for pulling the brisket out of the smoker at 11:30 PM so I could go to bed on time ;-).
April 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Where am I!???
April 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just checked in for STAMP conference. psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/2025-st...
March 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
❤️
March 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Tweaking Quepid's startup process to not load Rails' ActionMailbox and ActionText code appears to have cut the memory usage a LOT on Heroku. Will report back after another few days of usage on app.quepid.com!
February 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM

Indexes matter in Rails! A missing index meant my 5000 query background job in Quepid was taking 7 hours and maxing the database out. Add the index and the job sped up at least 10x..! And load halved!
January 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I like a PR that strips out 1000+ lines and only adds 76 lines!

Yanked out a very rich permissions architecture in Quepid that as time went by realized it was too rich. We only care about the binary choice "are you an Admin or not" ;-).
January 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM