Hybrid Search Done Right: Stop Calling Metadata Filters "Hybrid"

Hybrid Search Done Right: Stop Calling Metadata Filters “Hybrid” Everyone’s talking about hybrid search right now. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: 👉 Just because you glued vector search onto your database and added metadata filters doesn’t mean you’ve built true hybrid search. That’s like duct-taping a spoiler on a hatchback and calling it a race car. 🚗💨 Hybrid search is more than just “keyword + vector + filter.” It’s about field-level design, reranking, scoring, and scale. ...

August 25, 2025 · 4 min · Ashish Tiwari
Receive webhook requests using ELK

Receive Webhook Requests Using ELK

In this blog, we will see how you can quickly setup ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack to receive the HTTP webhook. Mostly ELK stack is known for logging purposes. But Elastic stacks are much more beyond the logging use case. Elastic provides Search, Observability & Security you can check more on this with official documentation. What is Webhook ? Webhook enables the two programs to communicate or transfer the data with the help of callback functions / hooks. Now in the modern tech world it is also known as Reverse API, Push API etc. Mostly it is used to send small amounts of data from source to destination. It is a one way data transfer procedure. It works over the HTTP protocol using REST API. It is simple like client and server communication. Most of the saas allow you to integrate their product with your system with the help of APIs and Webhook only. E.g. Slack and discord allows you to push messages with the help of webhooks. To accept the webhook event, You need to expose one HTTP endpoint lets say ...

January 23, 2023 · 5 min · Ashish Tiwari

Kubernetes generic errors

1. unknown service runtime.v1alpha2.ImageService Error: pulling image: rpc error: code = Unimplemented desc = unknown service runtime.v1alpha2.ImageService System configuration centos 9 / 2GB RAM / 2CPU Master Node Same issue on master node. Command [root@kube-master-1 ~]# kubeadm config images pull failed to pull image "registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.26.0": output: E0107 14:52:09.997544 4134 remote_image.go:222] "PullImage from image service failed" err="rpc error: code = Unimplemented desc = unknown service runtime.v1alpha2.ImageService" image="registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.26.0" time="2023-01-07T14:52:09Z" level=fatal msg="pulling image: rpc error: code = Unimplemented desc = unknown service runtime.v1alpha2.ImageService" , error: exit status 1 To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher ✅ Solved Remove below file: ...

January 7, 2023 · 2 min · Ashish Tiwari
Hugoconf2022 how to build a developer profile

How to build a Developer Profile - HugoConf2022

Just a thought 💭 … As a Developer, we keep learning & developing stuff. Sometimes we also find the solutions. Our stuff is distributed the same as our System architecture. We maintain different platforms like GitHub for projects, Medium for blogs, LinkedIn for profile, etc. All this stuff we want to share on a single platform but as a tech, I am lazy if you ask me to install some CMS and maintain all stuff over there. it is hard to switch from a black terminal 💻 window to some UI 😅 ...

June 27, 2022 · 4 min · Ashish Tiwari

Start a single node elastic cluster with Docker Compose

Introduction In this gist, we will quickly try to spin Elastic stacks with Docker containers. We are going to use docker-compose. You can learn more about Docker & Docker Compose, Which will help you to understand the flow. Prerequisite Tested on the below configuration. docker:Docker version 20.10.16, build aa7e414 docker-compose:Docker version 20.10.16, build aa7e414 Cluster This setup will include Elasticsearch Kibana Logstash APM Setup Clone repo: git clone https://github.com/ashishtiwari1993/elastic-docker.git cd elastic-docker Make changes in .env file. ...

June 8, 2022 · 1 min · Ashish Tiwari