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Semantic search with Django, PostgreSQL, & pgvector | POSETTE 2024

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Video of a conference talk about semantic search with Django, PostgreSQL, and pgvector presented by Paolo Melchiorre at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. Artificial intelligence is now a required functionality in many fields, and we often find ourselves needing to add to existing projects. The first problem to face is that of having to store the vectors, there are vector databases ready to use, but they also introduce new problems, fortunately pgvector allows us to continue to exploit PostgreSQL for this purpose. In this talk we will see how to add semantic search functionality to an existing Python-based web project, in particular Django, with data storage on PostgreSQL. Paolo is a longtime Python backend developer who contributes to the Django project and gives talks at tech conferences. He has been a GNU/Linux user for over 20 years, and he uses and promotes Free Software. Paolo graduated in Software Engineering and is an alumnus of t …...more
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Semantic search with Django, PostgreSQL, & pgvector | POSETTE 2024
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Video of a conference talk about semantic search with Django, PostgreSQL, and pgvector presented by Paolo Melchiorre at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. Artificial intelligence is now a required functionality in many fields, and we often find ourselves needing to add to existing projects. The first problem to face is that of having to store the vectors, there are vector databases ready to use, but they also introduce new problems, fortunately pgvector allows us to continue to exploit PostgreSQL for this purpose. In this talk we will see how to add semantic search functionality to an existing Python-based web project, in particular Django, with data storage on PostgreSQL. Paolo is a longtime Python backend developer who contributes to the Django project and gives talks at tech conferences. He has been a GNU/Linux user for over 20 years, and he uses and promotes Free Software. Paolo graduated in Software Engineering and is an alumnus of the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been working in the web for 15 years and is now the CTO of 20tab, a pythonic software company, for which he works remotely. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:17 - Django 02:19 - Flask, FastAPI, etc 04:06 - Django - Code 09:47 - Django - Administration 14:26 - Semantic Search and Vector Databases 16:37 - pgvector 📕 Everything you need to know about POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024 can be found at: https://aka.ms/posette ✅ Learn more: Watch more POSETTE talks: https://aka.ms/posette-playlist-2024 📌 Let’s connect: X – @PosetteConf https://x.com/PosetteConf Mastodon - @posetteconf https://mastodon.social/@posetteconf Threads – @posetteconf https://www.threads.net/@posetteconf 🔔 Subscribe to the POSETTE News: https://aka.ms/posette-subscribe #PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Django Presenters: Paolo Melchiorre, CTO @ 20tab - Django Software Foundation member Connect: Paolo Melchiorre: https://fosstodon.org/@paulox,   / pauloxnet  ,   / paolomelchiorre  

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