SE Radio 691: Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database

SE Radio 691: Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database

Author: team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) October 22, 2025 Duration: 59:51

Kacper Łukawski, a Senior Developer Advocate at Qdrant, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Qdrant vector database and similarity search engine. After introducing vector databases and the foundational concepts undergirding similarity search, they dive deep into the Rust-based implementation of Qdrant. Along with comparing and contrasting different vector databases, they also explore the best practices for the performance evaluation of systems like Qdrant. Kacper and Gregory also discuss topics such as the steps for using Python to build an AI-powered application that uses Qdrant.

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