# đ Weaviate Monthly Introductions - May 2023
**URL:** https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49
**Category:** General
**Created:** [May 24, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49 "2023-05-24T14:57:37Z")
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/1 "2023-05-24T14:57:37Z")
Hello everyone and welcome to the âWeaviate Monthly Introductionsâ thread! đ
If youâve just joined our community, we want to extend our warmest welcome. This thread is the perfect opportunity to introduce yourself, get to know the other members, and to learn more about how diverse and vibrant our Weaviate community is.
To start things off, please tell us a little about yourself and how you are currently using or planning to use Weaviate. Here are some questions for inspiration:
- Whatâs your name, location, and what you do? (only share what youâre comfortable with, of course!)
- How did you find out about Weaviate?
- What are you currently using Weaviate for? Could you tell us a little about your project?
- Are there any specific features of Weaviate that particularly impressed you or drew you in?
- Whatâs one challenge or problem youâve solved using Weaviate? Or perhaps youâre facing a challenge that you hope Weaviate will help you solve?
- If you could improve or add one feature to Weaviate, what would it be?
- Any fun facts about yourself? (Optional, but encouraged!)
Letâs keep this thread friendly, welcoming, and supportive. Remember, thereâs no such thing as a âstupidâ question, so donât hesitate to ask if youâre not sure about something!
Also, experienced members, donât shy away from introducing yourselves again, your experiences could be invaluable to our new members. Feel free to share some advice or insights youâve gained along the way.
Weâre thrilled to have you as part of our community and canât wait to hear from you!
Cheers,
Dan
P.S. Donât forget to check back often to welcome new members. And letâs keep the conversations going!
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### Author:  [@etiennedi](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/etiennedi)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/2 "2023-05-25T09:35:28Z")
Uhh, let me kick this off.
> [@dandv](#):
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> - Whatâs your name, location, and what you do? (only share what youâre comfortable with, of course!)
Etienne, đ©đȘ , Weaviate Co-Founder & CTO
> [@dandv](#):
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> - How did you find out about Weaviate?
Bob was pitching Weaviate (back then a âknowledge graphâ) to a company that I freelanced for. We met there, the rest is history. A loooot has changed since then. No more knowledge graph đ
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> - What are you currently using Weaviate for? Could you tell us a little about your project?
The two most recent use cases were load test for large-scale multitenancy cases (v1.20 coming out in about a month đ„ł ), and performance tests on various GCP & AWS infrastructure. Some big surprises there, could make for a cool blog post at some point.
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> - Are there any specific features of Weaviate that particularly impressed you or drew you in?
At the moment Iâm most excited about everything related to multi-tenancy and the massive potential we have there for separation of storage and compute
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> - Whatâs one challenge or problem youâve solved using Weaviate? Or perhaps youâre facing a challenge that you hope Weaviate will help you solve?
Affordable, massive-scale, multi-tenant, highly concurrent, vector + hybrid search use cases
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> - If you could improve or add one feature to Weaviate, what would it be?
My pet peeve is that we have three APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), but there is no feature parity between them. You need to use at least two different APIs for an e2e use case.
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> - Any fun facts about yourself? (Optional, but encouraged!)
Iâm a big wine geek and my demos and example cases often revolve around wine. Itâs a fun topic because it has a very domain-specific language yet is still relatable to a large audience.
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### Author:  [@kureev](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/kureev)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/3 "2023-05-25T16:30:39Z")
> - Whatâs your name, location, and what you do? (only share what youâre comfortable with, of course!)
Hi everyone! My name is Alexey Kureev, founding engineer @ Novoic (UK). I help very smart people to build software for early Alzheimerâs disease (and MCI) diagnostics.
> - How did you find out about Weaviate?
Frankly speaking, I discovered Weaviate once Iâve been searching for a vector db to use for my pet project. Iâve tried Chroma first, then moved to Pinecone and settled down with Weaviate đ
> - What are you currently using Weaviate for? Could you tell us a little about your project?
I build a pet project that revolves around the idea of contextualising LLM for developers. For example, I want this tool to be able to help with tests, but even this proves to be a non-trivial task as it might seem from the first glance. Copy-pasting code into LLM just doesnât cut it: it doesnât know about existing mocks, libraries you use, downstream dependencies of your code etc etc. With proper contextualisation, I believe it will be possible to solve all these problems and significantly improve DX.
Weaviate helps me to:
- Structure my context (using different classes with cross-references changed my life)
- Reduce complexity on my side by delegating vectorization to text2vec modules
- Hybrid search for code references and other information in the codebase
> - Are there any specific features of Weaviate that particularly impressed you or drew you in?
Cross-referencing. Modules.
> - Whatâs one challenge or problem youâve solved using Weaviate? Or perhaps youâre facing a challenge that you hope Weaviate will help you solve?
Iâm somewhere in the middle. The main challenge is to analyse code and not only vectorise contents of the codebase, but also draw some conclusions about the structure and files that can help answering generic questions. Maybe, pre-generate an âinformationâ object with the summary of the findings, idk yet.
> - If you could improve or add one feature to Weaviate, what would it be?
Frankly speaking, documentation. Some things are outdated, some are not elaborative enough. For cross-referencing, I had to jump between three different topics as the information scattered around the entire docs website đ . Would be great to have more domain-oriented structure with solid examples etc.
> - Any fun facts about yourself? (Optional, but encouraged!)
Not sure how fun of a fact it is, but I studied to be a rocket scientist, so usually I am the most qualified person to say âitâs not rocket scienceâ đ€Ą
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### Author:  [@david](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/david)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/4 "2023-05-25T19:43:14Z")
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> - Whatâs your name, location, and what you do? (only share what youâre comfortable with, of course!)
Hey there! Iâm David, software engineer / tech entrepreneur. Iâm the founder of inRecovery, an addiction recovery platform that helps people overcome addiction and thrive in life.
After my 2nd tech exit, I struggled many years with drugs and my mental health. Eventually, I went to rehab and saw a major need for innovation. inRecovery was born from a vision to make care more data-driven, personalized, and create a more connected recovery experience for patients and their families.
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> - How did you find out about Weaviate?
Iâve been pretty involved in Open Source since I can remember and part of the Apollo GraphQL community. So I found Weaviate while researching a vector database solution that could fit our needs. But more importantly that has the right team, culture, and community behind it.
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> - What are you currently using Weaviate for? Could you tell us a little about your project?
We are building context vectors for Providers from their knowledge bases/historical data. As well as individual patientâs data like treatment plans, notes, lab results, progress, etc. The ultimate goal is to provide a NLQ interface for both clinicians and patients to improve their decision making and provide support, respectively.
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> - Are there any specific features of Weaviate that particularly impressed you or drew you in?
Mostly the community. When I saw the Slack channel, the enthusiam of @bobvanluijt , Conner, @etiennedi, @erika-cardenas
Btw @etiennedi , I LOVED your FOSEM talk on building in Go. From optimizing memory allocation using buffer (binary.LittleEndian.Uinit32), choosing binary encoding over JSON, and looping over raw data / skipping decoding. So cool to see your process, Iâve shared this with many developers as a great approach to problem solving.
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> - Whatâs one challenge or problem youâve solved using Weaviate? Or perhaps youâre facing a challenge that you hope Weaviate will help you solve?
We have unique challenges in the healthcare space. Mostly around privacy and the need for strong semantic layers given the sensitivity of our domain.
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> - If you could improve or add one feature to Weaviate, what would it be?
A better and faster onboarding experience. I have some idea here and Iâd love to contribute our UX and dev resources to make it happen. We should connect!
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> - Any fun facts about yourself? (Optional, but encouraged!)
- I was expelled from my High School for hacking my school district đ
- Iâve always loved engineering, but wanted to study art
- My dream is to raise Alpacas with my girl, somewhere remote, surrounded by nature
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### Author:  [@jphwang](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/jphwang)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/5 "2023-05-26T05:36:47Z")
Hi @david đ
Wow, what a great project and such an amazing story behind it. Congratulations on both, but especially on your recovery.
I also noticed this:
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> A better and faster onboarding experience. I have some idea here and Iâd love to contribute our UX and dev resources to make it happen. We should connect!
This is an area that weâre actively looking at - Iâd love to get a bit of your time to connect & have a chat. Would you be open to that? Or written communication is fine too :).
If that works, please drop me a DM, we would love to get your feedback on your impressions so far, and talk about how we could improve things.
Cheers!
JP
(Alpacas are fab. There are some near my in-lawsâ place and we love walking/driving by them. So fluffy.)
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### Author:  [@jphwang](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/jphwang)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/6 "2023-05-26T06:37:52Z")
Nice to see you here @kureev.
Sorry about your experience with the cross-refs. Actually, @dandv and has put this page together in the last few days - [Cross-references | Weaviate - vector database](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/manage-data/cross-references).
Obviously it would have been better to have had it earlier, but weâd love to get your thoughts on it. Pls let me / Dan know if you have thoughts on it, good or bad.
We are building up a library of task-oriented, âhow-toâ sections in our docs to address exactly this. We donât get there all at once, but weâre listening & trying our best.
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### Author:  [@etiennedi](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/etiennedi)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/7 "2023-05-26T06:38:36Z")
> [@david](#):
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> Btw @etiennedi , I LOVED your FOSEM talk on building in Go. From optimizing memory allocation using buffer (binary.LittleEndian.Uinit32), choosing binary encoding over JSON, and looping over raw data / skipping decoding. So cool to see your process, Iâve shared this with many developers as a great approach to problem solving.
Thank you đ Glad to hear that it was useful.
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### Author:  [@kureev](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/kureev)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-monthly-introductions-may-2023/49/8 "2023-05-26T09:20:55Z")
Oh, thatâs very nice! The article is indeed what Iâve been looking for some time back. One suggestion: it might be beneficial to consider adding a section about batch referencing. I had a case where I need to create plenty of cross-references at once. Maybe a reference to the batch update docs would be enough, though.