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Search at Scale: From Fuzzy Queries to Intelligent Document Retrieval

Search at Scale: From Fuzzy Queries to Intelligent Document Retrieval

Thu 15 Oct · 18:00

Elastic London office

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This workshop takes place at the Elastic London office on 15 October 2026 from 18:00 to 21:00. It features a talk by Amir Hossein Rassafi on migrating from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch to handle fuzzy name searches at scale. Arrivals with pizza and drinks begin at 18:00, with the session closing at 20:30.

📅 **Date:** Thursday, October 15 from 6:00-9:00 PM 📍 **Location:** Elastic London Office Davidson Building, 1st Floor, 5 Southampton St, London, WC2E 7HA **👉 Important:** Please use the **Exeter St entrance** as the main entrance is closed after 6 PM. **⚠️ Entrance will be on a first come, first served basis**, subject to room capacity — arrive on time to guarantee your spot. ⏰ **Agenda** Arrivals, pizza and drinks: 6 PM Welcome: 6:30 PM Talk #1: 6:45 - 7:15 PM Talk #2: 7:15 PM - 7:45 PM Networking: 7:45 PM Closing: 8:30 PM **Talk \#1 by Amir Hossein Rassafi \| Head of Platform at Condukt** Title: From PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch: Migrating a Fuzzy Name Search at Scale What happens when your search quality is good but your database can't keep up? In this talk, we'll walk through a real migration from PostgreSQL's pg_trgm to Elasticsearch — driven by growing latency and database pressure. We'll cover how to preserve trigram-like behaviour using n-grams, prefixes, keywords, and shingles, how to validate the new system with real queries and synthetic typo cases, and the production details that made the migration safe: replication, checkpointing, lag handling, and replayable indexing. A practical talk for anyone dealing with fuzzy search at scale — or planning a migration where quality, performance, and reliability all matter. **Talk \#2 by Antonio Morais\, Machine Learning Engineer \| Elastic** Title: Power of Three - turning scanned documents into ranked answers with Jina OCR, Omni and Reranker on EIS Take a folder of scanned documents and convert it into a searchable index with the help of three Jina models: OCR extracts the text, Omni v5 embeds the image and text into a shared vector space, and Reranker v3.5 surfaces the right page at the top. We will detail the inner workings of each model, and then show how you can build an end-to-end pipeline with Jina on Elastic Inference Service

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Search at Scale: From Fuzzy Queries to Intelligent Document Retrieval takes place on Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00.

Search at Scale: From Fuzzy Queries to Intelligent Document Retrieval is held at Elastic London office in London (Davidson Building, 1st floor, 5 Southampton St, London WC2E 7HA, London, WC2E 7HA).

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