If you missed my talk on lexical, vector and hybrid search (😱) at the wonderful @gotocon.com in Copenhagen earlier this year, it's now available to watch. If you want to understand how search and AI fit together the answers are in here. Enjoy!

There's still time to submit your talk ideas to the FOSDEM Search room (or indeed any of the other Devrooms). We would love to see your submissions on anything #search related: pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/...

Next week is going to be busy💨 ! But I'm excited to be speaking at GDG Bletchley on Sat 15th Nov on building #ai agents with Next.js, AI SDK, Google Gemma 3 and #elasticsearch. Hope to chat and see some amazing talks at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park 🖥️ !

#js developers 📣! There's still time to sign up for @halfstackconf.bsky.social London on Wed 12th November. There's some great talks on the list, including myself talking about #vectorsearch. Here's my 10% off code if you still haven't got your 🎫 (😱): ti.to/halfstack/ha... See you there! 👋

The next @elastic.co London meetup is at the office on 18th Nov. We'll hear from @elastic.co's Elena and Giorgos on 9.2's Streams which use #ai to streamline log processing and routing. Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast... We have 1 speaking slot available. DM me if you would like to speak! 👋

I'm looking forward to speaking and also hearing from some fab speakers at @halfstackconf.bsky.social London again this year. 🎉 If you still don't have your ticket ( 😲 ) feel free to use my 10% off code: ti.to/halfstack/ha... Hope to see you there! ☺️👋

How do you feel about public speaking with auto-rotating slides. 😱 perhaps? Join us at Aspiring Speakers on 4th November as we talk about how Ignite talks work, why they are great practice, and how to get started with them. Sign up 👇 luma.com/trbd67xl?loc... See you there! 👋

Have you played with the new @elastic.co Agent Builder yet? I've been fortunate enough to have an early play with it to solve the problem of finding the set that elusive LEGO piece belongs to 🧱. Check out how it works in the brief video 👇. #ai #elasticsearch #contextengineering

It's been a busy month of conferences, so I'm looking forward to enjoying an online instalment of #AICodingSummit on October 23rd. Join me as I talk about context engineering, explaining what #context is and why it's important when building #ai #agents. See you then! aicodingsummit.com

NYC #devrel friends, if you're open to a new role we're hiring for a Senior Developer Advocate here at @elastic.co. If you love building content, code and sharing at conferences and meetups do apply. We would love to see an application from you. Details 👇 jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...

I've been enjoying playing around with #MCP and #ai agents recently. This article from my colleagues on MCP security was an interesting morning read 📖: www.elastic.co/security-lab... It gives a clear overview of attack vectors such as poisoning and best practices. Enjoy! 😊👋

I'm back again chatting all things #observability at @devopsdays.london! I'm on the Elastic booth with my colleague Carson Ip before taking the stage tomorrow to talk at lightning speed ⚡ about #otel client instrumentation. Come say hi 👋

I'm speaking on Sept 18th at #DevNight London with @auth0byokta.bsky.social, @digitalocean.com, and @langchain.bsky.social! I’ll share how developers can apply #GenAI + @elastic.co's #elasticsearch to solve real-world problems. 🧠 Register 👉 luma.com/9ddc7fmn See you there! 👋

I'm excited to share my latest piece is live. I've been learning about the new theme of #context engineering. I share what it is, what the key components are, and why it's important in the building of #ai #agents and agentic applications: www.elastic.co/search-labs/... Enjoy! 👋

The next Elastic London #meetup is on Sept 15th. Join us for 🍕 and talks from Alam Ahmed on automating Elastic deployments with #terraform and myself covering frontend web #observability with #otel #opentelemetry and #elastic. 🎉 Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast... See you then!👋

Loving the holiday views with Mr and mini R😊🏖️🩴

I've been playing around with client instrumentation in #opentelemetry #otel for web. While experimental, it would have given useful insights for #monitoring, UI outage investigations and tracking feature usage in my prior UI engineer life. Check out my piece 👇 www.elastic.co/observabilit...

Theatre time with Mr and mini R ☺️🏺

If you're doing something cool with @elastic.co we have some amazing opportunities for you to share! 1. #Elastic{ON} is back in several cities across the 🗺️! sessionize.com/elasticon-to... 2. Elastic meetups around the 🌐: sessionize.com/elastic-meet... Looking forward to seeing your ideas! 😀

Missed @carlyrichmond.bsky.social‘s Devoxx UK talk "How to Ask Questions in 2025"? Watch it now and learn to craft effective questions, wisely use AI-generated answers, and validate solutions in developer forums. Enhance your communication skills in the AI era. Talk @ devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=13331

Thanks to all that came to my talk at #wearedevs on machine learning classification with #tensorflowjs. I hope you didn't leave too hungry after all those 🧁images! Code and game link are available 👇 github.com/carlyrichmon... Until next time! 👋

Less than 1 hour 2 go! After MC'ing AI/ML talks yesterday on stage 2 and today on stage 7, it will be my turn at 13:40 on stage 7 at #wearedevs. I'll be talking about image classification with #tensorflowjs and lots of 🧁🍰. Be sure to have your lunch 1st! 😅

www.elastic.co/blog/journey... #elastic #elasticcloud #elasticcloudserverless #serverless #kubernetes #crossplane @elastic.co

@miguelgrinberg.com raises some good honest points in his piece. I like it a lot! It's your choice as to whether you use these tools in your coding. But given I see AI generated snippets that are incorrect in my work, I recommend you review the code yourself. You are responsible for it after all!

It was awesome to speak at such an amazing venue. Thank you @jnationconf.bsky.social and @danieljcafonso.bsky.social! Slides and code are available 👇 github.com/carlyrichmon... Until next time! 👋

I'm excited to be speaking at @jnationconf.bsky.social later today about #observability, specifically RUM (not the 🍹), #OTel and Synthetic Monitoring. Until then I'm enjoying some awesome talks 😎

I had such a blast at @devoxx.uk this week! From chatting to loads of awesome people at the @elastic.co booth, to giving 3 talks and MC'ing the Aspiring Speakers Slot it's been fun. 😃 It's an amazing part of my job. Until next year! 👋🎉

Chilling after a fun family weekend in Bristol 😊🎉. It was nice to mix work with and family time 😀

Thanks so much @ledarville.bsky.social! It was a great session at @dddsouthwest.com , and I learned from everyone's contributions too. 😊 All, if you're looking for the slides, with your additional antipatterns, check out the slides 👇: github.com/carlyrichmon... Until next time! 😊👋

Having a fab Saturday at @dddsouthwest.com watching awesome talks before my slot at 12 on DevOps and engineering antipatterns. 😁 I like the little things they are doing too, such as encouraging donations for meals for the homeless, and as a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Irn Bru of course! 😊

20 Days left until the highly anticipated @devoxx.uk Have you started favouriting & building your schedule for the event? Head to bit.ly/3EqWdcg to explore the agenda. Click the star icon at the bottom right to favourite a session. This helps us put popular sessions in the bigger rooms.

I'm excited to be back at Devoxx UK this year 🎉. I have 3 talks on software culture anti patterns, Observability and developer community questions. I'll also be at the @elastic.co booth. It's amazing to still be involved in this awesome conference since my 1st appearance in 2021. See you there! 👋

If you're at @devoxx.uk and looking at what to see on Friday 9th May in the morning, come and check out the lightning talks from our aspiring speakers! 😊🎉 #publicspeaking

Good choice of cards for me for #mothersday2025 😊😅

I'm excited to share my new piece on #AI agents in #elasticsearch labs using AI SDK, #typescript and #elasticsearch. 🎉 If you want to learn what AI agents are and how you can build your 1st agent in Typescript check it out! www.elastic.co/search-labs/... Enjoy! 👋

Thanks to all that came to my talk on synthetic #monitoring with Playwright and Elastic at #CloudConf2025! Code and slides 👇 github.com/carlyrichmon... For those wanting to dig into #opentelemetry as discussed in the Q&A check 👇 github.com/carlyrichmon... Until next time! 👋

It was a great 1st day at Webdevcon! Thanks to all who joined my workshop on RAG and AI technologies, including AI SDK, @langchain.bsky.social and #elasticsearch. We built cool stuff! 🥳 Slides, starter code and final solutions are available below: github.com/carlyrichmon... See you Friday! 👋

It's always great being back at @devoxx.uk and sharing some useful tips on how (and how not) to engage in developer forums. With (anonymous) real world examples! See you in May everyone! 👋

If you missed the session (😲) or any others, all #OTel #ElasticDailyByte session are available for watch back on the Elastic community YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... See you all tomorrow for the next episode!

#elasticsearch is 15 years old today! shay announced it with the "You Know, for Search" tagline and the first release (0.4.0) back in february 2010. a thread 🧵 to the last 15 years of indexing and search. and to the next 15 years of relevance

It's been a busy week with #ElasticON London meetup on Wednesday, and running the community track on Thursday. Thank you to our amazing speakers at both sessions who shared their experience and the cool things they have been doing with Elastic. Until next time! 😊👋

Ever made a retro arcade game? Would you like to? We are hosting an arcade hack day on the 1st of March and would love to have you join us! For more information (and to register) please have a look at the form below. https://buff.ly/4hBkz11

Today is the last day of CFPs for @dddsouthwest.bsky.social's 20th anniversary conference. It is a free #softwaredevelopment conference and a great reason to visit Bristol UK this April. sessionize.com/ddd-south-we...

Day 1 on the Elastic booth at #ndclondon talking all things #elasticsearch #kibana #elk. Excited to see @stevejgordon.bsky.social's talk later. Not a bad view here either. 😊 If you're around come and say hi 👋

We're back with another Elastic meetup in London on Feb 5th ahead of #ElasticON London with Microsoft! We have talks from Microsoft on #rag with #elasticsearch and #azure and my Elastic colleagues on #rag and #observability. Register here: www.meetup.com/london-elast... See you there! 👋 🍕

Tonight's new dinner experiment. Followed a recipe for Laxpudding. Yum! 😋

Here we go @reactdayberlin.gitnation.org! #ReactDayBerlin Loving the Christmas jumpers MCs! 🎄🎅

Thanks to all who came along today! If you want to continue working away, the final solution using #elasticsearch, #langchain, #react, and #ollama is at the below link: github.com/carlyrichmon... See you all tomorrow at @reactdayberlin.gitnation.org 👋 !

It's definitely an honour to be a part of this small and mighty team 💪. Please do submit your talk ideas about anything UI and UX to @devoxx.uk.