Stories by softwaredoug

Your big company can't be a startup again

Failing at an Elasticsearch 'full' phrase match

Cut the Chit-Chat with Artifacts

RRF Is Not Enough

Top discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023

The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach

The hidden danger that kills search products

Story Points Revisited (2019)

Networking sucks. How it actually works [video]

Stop avoiding conflict on your teams

The Moses Trap and How to Avoid It (2019)

Staff engineers exist in a system of patronage

Companies need junior devs

The Knowledge Creating Company (1991)

From Keywords, to AI, to GAR – the evolution of search [audio] [video]

Search query analysis minus the noise

I made a worse search engine than Elasticsearch

Will AI chickens come home to roost?

Jars.ai

SHAP is not all you need

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