Engineers
~60–90 pages
Code Retrieval from Scratch
Chunking, Embeddings, and Hybrid Search for Code
Free Ebook
EPUB + Markdown
By David Kelly Price
About This Ebook
Senior/staff engineers who want to understand or build code retrieval systems — comfortable with Python, familiar with basic ML concepts, interested in information retrieval
What you'll learn:
- The Retrieval Problem in Code
- Chunking Strategies
- Embedding Models for Code
- BM25 for Code
- Hybrid Retrieval with RRF
- AST Graph Boosting
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