Radu, Great to see this come through. You brought this up in a past dev call, and I looking forward to seeing it released.
Good luck and best regards, Vikram On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 4:29 AM Jens Scheffler <[email protected]> wrote: > Never have heard of Vespa.ai but maybe I am not related at all in eCommerce > > I think general rules apply, as a committer and two stewards defined all > looks good. > > On 20.03.26 22:45, Jarek Potiuk wrote: > > +1 from me -> (disclaimer - I've worked with Radu and commented on the > > scope and how the provider should be implemented). Also Radu shared his > > perspective on some of the past Dev calls. And I participated Berlin > > Buzzwords 2025 where I saw talks and discussed in detail what Vespa can > do > > for E-commersce users, this is a great addition to our providers :) > > > > J. > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM Radu Gheorghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hello Airflow Community, > >> > >> I would like to propose a new provider for Vespa.ai. There's a PR for > >> this here: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/63988 > >> > >> Motivation: We'd like to make it easy for Vespa users to use Airflow > >> to write data and run queries (potentially other tasks in the future). > >> And vice versa: for Airflow users to use Vespa for retrieval. > >> > >> Background: Vespa.ai is an open-source retrieval engine. Somewhat > >> similar to search engines like Elasticsearch or vector DBs like > >> Qdrant. Vespa is used for E-commerce or real-time personalization > >> (e.g., Spotify, Yahoo!, Vinted), web-scale RAG (e.g., Perplexity), and > >> other use-cases needing flexible ranking at scale. Users typically > >> combine signals like vector or lexical similarity, recency, etc., via > >> custom ranking logic or models (GBDT, ONNX). They normally have > >> complex data pipelines, which is where Airflow comes in: many are > >> already Airflow users or should be :) > >> > >> It's in our interest for Airflow users to have a good experience > >> (e.g., reliable, secure), so we're committed to maintaining this > >> provider. This brings us to maintenance (AIP-95). We have two > >> stewards: > >> > >> Radu Gheorghe (github: radu-gheorghe) - me > >> Thomas Hjelde Thoresen (thomasht86) - maintainer of pyvespa (on which > >> the provider is based) > >> > >> While Jarek Potiuk agreed to be our Committer Sponsor. Thanks a lot > >> for your guidance in this whole process, Jarek! > >> > >> Looking forward to your feedback. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Radu Gheorghe > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
