Recent Articles by Kylie Wagar-Dirks

Agentic relevance tuning: Letting LLM agents do the search engineering work

Introduced at OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Agentic Relevance Tuning (ART) is a new framework that uses...

The forbidden index: Building privacy-preserving search with OpenSearch

At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Unnati Mishra and Akshat Khanna presented a method for handling search...

How a 60% speedup on Lucene vector search came from the CPU, not the algorithm

At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Amazon’s Shubham Chaudhary demonstrated how bypassing JVM limitation...

OpenSearch Ambassador applications are now open year-round

The OpenSearch Ambassador Program is transitioning to a rolling application model, allowing communit...

Intent is the thing: Dom Couldwell’s case for a different kind of enterprise search

At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Dom Couldwell argued that effective enterprise search must move beyond...

The vector engine showdown nobody was telling the truth about

At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Fernando Rejon Barrera presented a study comparing Lucene’s HNSW, Fa...

Vectors vs. hallucinations: How OpenSearch keeps GenAI grounded

At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Laysa Uchoa argued that generative AI hallucinations are primarily a r...

OpenSearch in the Agentic Era: What Carl Meadows announced at OpenSearchCon Europe 2026

At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Carl Meadows announced three key innovations—OpenSearch Launchpad, t...

Introducing the 2026-2027 OpenSearch Ambassadors

The OpenSearch Project’s Ambassador Program has seen significant growth, recently adding 10 new me...