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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 15/09/2026

6,000,000,000 downloads of elasticsearch, kibana, logstash, beats, elastic agent to everyone who downloaded it, built on it, contributed to it, deployed it, broke it, fixed it, and made something amazing with it: thank you

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 03/09/2026

after all the attention for duckdb's acquisition by AWS: one of my favorite things is their "why @duckdb.org" page — duckdb.org/why_duckdb explainining their tradeoffs and goals; and how they try to achieve those through technical means

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 02/09/2026

"Float Bloat: vector serialization gone wrong" by storing float64 instead of float32. it's a surprising problem but with elasticsearch you're in luck: * since 9.2 (index creation) `index.mapping.exclude_source_vectors` is on by default — you don't store the floats in source at all any more 1/3

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 19/08/2026

first hack night in the new @elastic.co san francisco office together with mastra tomorrow: build and compete on prices with agent memory already at 250 RSVP but thanks to the new space we can squeeze in a few more: luma.com/mastra-hack 🤞 for tomorrow

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 10/08/2026

current state of job offers — without wanting to imply anything 😂 unless it's a hack to get all the attention for this job

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 17/07/2026

we caught a fake coding interview to steal your developer credentials on the @elastic.co community slack. be extra careful with anyone DMing you files to download and run full analysis: www.elastic.co/security-lab...

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 22/06/2026

what a silly game 😅

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 22/06/2026

are you in the weights? it's the new klout also works for products (though reluctantly) #elasticsearch intheweights.com

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 14/04/2026

more cursor skills in the wild — here and everywhere else. spin up an elasticsearch cluster, manage kibana, configure security, set up OTel,... and almost hidden under it is also the brand new MCP endpoint for the @elastic.co docs cursor.com/marketplace/...

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 09/04/2026

BM25: "why won't you die?!" > the lexical retriever BM25 with appropriate setup outperforms neural rankers in most cases; notably, gpt-oss-20b with BM25 on the passage corpus achieves the highest answer accuracy across all retrieval settings in our study;

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 02/04/2026

is it an API key for a cloud account or the cluster? way too common of a confusion. so why not both?! released today for serverless projects and your @elastic.co cloud account PS: please be extra careful in your day to day use with these. they have an extra wide blast radius 💥

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 31/03/2026

someone woke up at RSA and chose violence: vibecoded.vc/cooked/ 😂 though it is entertaining (and I won't agree on all of the takes ;) )

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 16/03/2026

obligatory GTC keynote tweet when you make the top slides: building HNSW graphs with up to 12x the throughput and 7x faster merges on elasticsearch and NVIDIA cuVS (a GPU-accelerated library for vector search)

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 16/03/2026

nvidia GTC where every second word (spoken and on booths) is AI, agent, or token 😬 PS: who else is around?

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 11/03/2026

BM25 for "sparse visual-word activations"? arxiv.org/abs/2603.05781 BM25 just refuses to disappear or even take the back set for retrieval

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 09/03/2026

soon... and there's already the .md version for every elastic docs page and you can download the full docs as MD in a ZIP file too

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 07/03/2026

the irony on the vibecoding subreddit

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 01/03/2026

outage scenario: electricity turned off because of a drone / rocket attack ongoing updates: health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 27/02/2026

models have personalities in their recommendations and how conservative or cutting edge they are — massive differences even within a close "family" 4/5

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 27/02/2026

new defaults — some general and some language specific (the report is very JS and python focused) 3/5

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 27/02/2026

depending on the area, there is a clear bias towards building vs buying feature toggles as a full blown company were always a weird choice... 2/5

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 27/02/2026

*claude code is the new gatekeeper* fascinating report on the choices claude makes, build vs buy, the personality of different models, and who is winning / losing 1/5 PS: when creating code is cheap, the new moat is distribution

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 25/02/2026

4x performance improvement by upgrading from #elasticsearch 8 to 9. "this one weird trick your cloud provider / hardware vendor hates" 😉 medium.com/trendyol-tec... PS: I have a hunch what made the difference here

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 19/02/2026

2 new #jina models have entered the embedding arena — v5 multilingual: * small: 1024 dim, 32K context * nano: 768 dim, 8K context both support matryoshka dimension truncation (32+) and are at the top of current benchmarks — especially for their parameter size publicly accessible (non-commercial)

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 13/02/2026

* OpenClaw agent opening a PR on matplotlib * reviewer rejects it per the repo's policies * agent replies with a personal attack github.com/matplotlib/m...

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 12/02/2026

* different views per solution and you can filter by version or other labels `label:"v9.3.0"` * the underlying issue describes what it does, for who, and the value proposition take a look on github.com/orgs/elastic... comments are currently disabled but let us know if that's a deal-breaker 2/2

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 12/02/2026

new public #elastic roadmap: * covering key initiatives like ES|QL, better dashboards,... * recently shipped features (those are our fiscal quarters) * upcoming features as in-progress, near-term, and mid-term 1/2

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 08/02/2026

catching up on the search dev room at #FOSDEM: lots of good stuff on fosdem.org/2026/schedul... glad we (or carly richmond) could put this together again. this won't be the last one. PS: given our colorful past, it's especially great to be back at FOSDEM pushing the search dev room and OSS :)

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 19/01/2026

targeted billing emails work 😬

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 17/01/2026

jina-clip-v2 uses a multi-task, multi-stage contrastive learning strategy to align multilingual text and image representations to work well at both cross-modal and text-only retrieval. it excels at visually rich documents while flexibly truncating embedding dimensions arxiv.org/abs/2412.08802

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 17/01/2026

ReaderLM-v2 uses a new three-stage data synthesis pipeline called "draft-refine-critique" alongside a unified training framework to transform messy HTML into structured data, making it a highly effective tool that outperforms much larger models on web content extraction arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01151

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 17/01/2026

jina-embeddings-v4 works by projecting text & images into a shared semantic space using a unified Qwen2.5-VL backbone and task-specific LoRA adapters, which minimizes the modality gap and enables SOTA retrieval of visually rich documents via single- and multi-vector outputs arxiv.org/abs/2506.18902

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 17/01/2026

jina-reranker-v3 uses a new "last but not late" interaction strategy that processes the query and multiple documents simultaneously in a single shared context window, allowing it to capture cross-document and query-document relationships with its compact 0.6B parameter model arxiv.org/abs/2509.25085

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 17/01/2026

long US weekend — great time to catch up on some @JinaAI_ papers about rerankers and code / multilingual / multimodal embeddings: * jina-reranker-v3 * jina-code-embeddings * jina-embeddings-v4 * ReaderLM-v2 * jina-clip-v2

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 15/01/2026

san francisco in january (downtown / FiDi)

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 14/01/2026

free and OSS alternative to CleanShot X: www.bettershot.site because not everything needs 100 features and a cloud service... PS: just added an issue for homebrew support

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 07/01/2026

earning a living with OSS was never easy. but it just seems to be getting harder with LLMs like for tailwind, which ironically LLMs love: github.com/tailwindlabs... not an encouraging thought

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 30/12/2025

anybody tried z.ai in anger? not sure about the quality other than the claims; there is a more in-depth paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.06471 but the pricing looks really hard to beat and you can just put it "under" the common tools

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 28/12/2025

back at home to upset the neighbors: mr 🐿️ was not pleased by my presence — only wants nuts unobserved

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 25/12/2025

how to clean up an ancient (8 years!) #elasticsearch cluster with MCP + #claude: frutik.medium.com/robots-vs-zo... PS: not being able to delete indices might be a bit of a feature

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 20/12/2025

final friday elky of the year — already in the well rounded holiday version 😀 I‘m off to europe for a bit now

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 18/12/2025

latest malware benchmarks from www.av-comparatives.org/tests/busine... PS: still surprised to see elastic in the list and how well we're doing — caught everything in 2025

Real-World Protection Test (August-November)

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 16/12/2025

finally got some billing alerts in @elastic.co cloud less relevant with static setups. much more relevant with #serverless projects — don't judge all the projects running here docs in www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-... with more options to come — I'd love to see billing groups and flexible thresholds

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 13/12/2025

riding into the christmas season #elkOnTheShelf

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 11/12/2025

I'm not sure how intuitive I find the query at the bottom and the result on top. also it feels like a lot of clicking around for "viewer" vs "REST, the tabs, HTTP methods and query / body / settings though multiple tabs, saving requests, templates,... are kind of neat

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 11/12/2025

started elasticsearch only with start-local for a quick test nice that it supports no auth, basic auth, and API keys. and you can store various connections ℹ️ since I rotate my local installations around a lot (with random API keys), I'm not storing them but just go for the "ask every time"

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 11/12/2025

small native macOS GUI client for Elasticsearch — on the app store quick peek and where I think it fits between kibana and cURL / postman / ...

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 11/12/2025

TIL about pyinfra — ansible but python instead of yaml and a lot faster I'd be interested in faster but I'm not sure I see the full advantage in python; at least not for the simple examples they show

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