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Vector Search: My Way or the Highway! From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB

Event: 34. Meetup Data Community Trójmiasto – Gdynia

Location: Gdynia

Dates: October 21, 2026 – October 21, 2026

Presentation: October 21, 2026 , 18:15

Link: On event website

Speaker: Radoslaw Szulgo

Vector search has arrived in MongoDB Community Edition. That does not mean it is production-ready.

This was the first public presentation of Percona Search for MongoDB: the trip from a proof of concept to running and maintaining the system on your own infrastructure.

What we covered:

  • The evolution of search. Full-text, semantic, and hybrid search, through to RAG, on MongoDB data patterns you already know.
  • Production reality. Embedding pipelines, scale, authentication, monitoring, and Day 2 automation — the gaps that show up only after the prototype works.
  • A practical stack. A reference architecture with automatic embeddings, enterprise authentication, and vector-index monitoring in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).
  • Live demo. A working Percona Search stack and a board-game search app on top of it.

Radoslaw Szulgo presenting vector search at Data Community Trójmiasto in Gdynia

Live demo of a board-game search app on Percona Search for MongoDB

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Vector Search: My Way or the Highway! From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB

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Radoslaw Szulgo

Radoslaw Szulgo

Radoslaw is a Senior Product Manager at Percona and is responsible for driving Percona Software for MongoDB. He has more than 15 years of experience in building distributed applications as a product manager, leader, and software engineer. Radek is an Agile product development enthusiast and a fan of personal development. Outside of work, he’s an amateur handball and volleyball player.

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