Engineers
~60–90 pages
Production Code Search
Reranking, Scaling, and Evaluating Code Retrieval Systems
Free Ebook
EPUB + Markdown
By David Kelly Price
About This Ebook
Senior/staff engineers who have built (or understand) basic code retrieval and need to production-harden it — comfortable with Python, familiar with hybrid retrieval fundamentals (embeddings, BM25, RRF)
What you'll learn:
- Cross-Encoder Reranking
- Adaptive Thresholds
- Cold Start and Performance Engineering
- Incremental Indexing at Scale
- Evaluation and Benchmarking
- Extending the Pipeline
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