Vespa Product Updates, August 2020

In August 2020, Vespa announced several updates, including the integration of natural language processing (NLP) with transformers into its system, allowing for the deployment and evaluation of transformer models like BERT in Vespa applications without compromising latency. This update enhances Vespa's capabilities in handling large data corpora. Additionally, a new Grafana integration was introduced, utilizing Prometheus for improved monitoring and offering a sample application for users. The updates also include enhanced GEO search support for queries with positional data and improved query profile variants that reduce compilation and resolution times. Vespa, primarily developed by Yahoo engineers, is an open-source big data processing and serving engine used by various Yahoo products and continues to evolve through community feedback and contributions.