Author's articles
July 2, 2026
A simdvec deep-dive: How Elasticsearch uses neural-net and video-codec CPU instructions for vector search
Four ways Elasticsearch's vector search engine reuses neural-network, video-codec and cryptography CPU instructions for up to 6x speedups; with the math, the failed attempts and the benchmarks.
June 8, 2026
Elasticsearch simdvec deep-dive: Walking the memory tightrope to 2x better vector throughput
A deep dive into four optimizations (cascade unrolling, batch prefetching, dim-axis unrolling, a structural refactor) that pushed Elasticsearch simdvec to 2x vector throughput by working with the CPU, not against it.
May 28, 2026
How we doubled vector search throughput on Elasticsearch Serverless
How we brought Elasticsearch's native SIMD scoring engine to serverless, and why serverless is where vector search innovation happens next.
April 23, 2026
How we built Elasticsearch simdvec to make vector search one of the fastest in the world
How we built Elasticsearch simdvec, the hand-tuned SIMD kernel library behind every vector search query in Elasticsearch.
December 3, 2025
Up to 12x Faster Vector Indexing in Elasticsearch with NVIDIA cuVS: GPU-acceleration Chapter 2
Discover how Elasticsearch achieves nearly 12x higher indexing throughput with GPU-accelerated vector indexing and NVIDIA cuVS.