Booking.com and Weaviate with Başak Eskili - Weaviate Podcast #138!
Başak Eskili joins the Weaviate Podcast to explore how one of the world’s largest travel platforms adopted vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI at production scale. The conversation begins with Booking.com’s shift from keyword matching to semantic retrieval as internal teams needed embeddings, similarity search, and eventually GenAI RAG workflows. Başak explains why OpenSearch was a practical first step on AWS, how adoption grew across teams, and why hundreds of millions of embeddings, strict latency requirements, complex filtering, and rising concurrency pushed the…
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