It was great to see new and familiar faces at the OOPS meetup with Uptime Labs, @elastic.co and PagerDuty last night. We had many interesting conversations on incident management, AI and human in the (many) loops. My slides are 👇 github.com/elastic/meet... Until next time!

Once you've connected your first MCP server to Elastic, you may think the tools can only be used as agent tools. The import also creates a connector which can be used in alerts, cases or workflows. The things you learn when preparing a demo! Example workflow in screenshot 👇 .

For my London friends, @elastic.co , PagerDuty and Uptime Labs are hosting an incident response social on 1st June in Greenwich. We'll have lightning talks on Human in the Loop (including from myself), 🍹 and 🍕 . Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast... See you there!

It's been an awesome day of learning today so far at @dddsouthwest.com, from conversations and talks. Thanks to everyone who came to my session on context engineering. Slides, code and resources👇 github.com/carlyrichmon...

I'm looking forward to visiting Bristol again tomorrow to speak at @dddsouthwest.com! I'll be giving an overview of context engineering with my example travel planner agent. See you tomorrow everyone!

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk yesterday on OpenTelemetry at @agilemanc.bsky.social. Check out the slides and code 👇 github.com/carlyrichmon... Until next time!

Going back to my roots at @agilemanc.bsky.social. I'm not a Scrum Master anymore, but enjoying checking out the other talks before I take to the stage later to discuss OpenTelemetry.

Tomorrow is the night! I'm presenting on MCP context with a touch of the new MCP Observability App from @elastic.co thrown in. We'll also have talks on token reduction from @cloudflare.social, agent sandboxing from @upsun.com and @microsoft.com on VSCode support for the MCP spec. See you then!

I'm looking forward to catching up with old and new friends at @devoxx.uk next week. I have 2 talks on Retrieval in AI and Observing AI applications. Not to mention helping as MC for Aspiring Speakers! If you still haven't got your ticket ( 😱 ) use code SEEMESPEAK26. See you next week!

Whether you're an expert or just curious, come along to the meetup on 14th May. I'll be talking about @elastic.co MCP apps for retrieval and observability. Looking forward to hearing from @upsun.com , @cloudflare.social and @microsoft.com too. Register here: luma.com/eb8j6lhu See you there! 👋

I know first hand that it's scary to stand up and speak at a conference for the first time. That's exactly why we given them support to take to the stage at @devoxx.uk. If you're attending do come along and support these aspiring speakers!

Programmatically recreating indices is important for setting up Elasticsearch clusters in a consistent way during deployments, as well as spinning up environments for testing. I've been doing exactly that today with @elastic.co Workflows.

The obvious advice for vibe engineering at @cityjsconf.bsky.social London. The majority of these look similar to advice from traditional engineering practices such as trunk-based development. Especially commit often and use (hopefully short-lived) branches.

Looking forward to connecting with fellow JavaScript developers at the @cityjsconf.bsky.social London. It's always a great start when you encounter familiar friendly faces at the door. 😁

Brb. Off magic hunting with Mr and mini R ✨

📣 Attention mobile developer friends! The CFP is open for ai devCon taking place in Berlin in October. I'm excited to be reviewing submissions for the AI track. If you're doing something cool with AI and mobile we would love to see your submissions: sessionize.com/nextapp26

Lazy Sunday after KubeCon with decorating Stroopwaffles and the cinema 😌

Interesting point on access controls for AI telemetry information here at KubeCon. We share all sorts of personal information with agents. Not everyone needs access to full prompts and outputs. PII sanitation is also important just as we do with logs.

A busy day at KubeCon. This great diagram from the OTTL debugging talk is a useful intro to the telemetry data model

Come find me and my amazing @elastic.co colleagues around the conference and at booth 980 if you want to talk about observability and AI 👋

End of KubeCon Monday, and it's been a busy one with the Elastic and PagerDuty meetup with Alex Wert and Daniel Afonso speaking, and the first talk of the week from my colleague Roger Coll! Come say hi at booth 980 tomorrow 👋

I came across an interesting read on head-based probabilistic sampling in OTel SDKs. For Node.js it's the default. You just need to configure the sampling rate. In @elastic.co EDOT it's via sampling_rate or OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG. OTel SDK code in image. Article: www.elastic.co/observabilit...

One of my favourite parts of @devoxx.uk is chatting on the hallway track. I'll be at the @elastic.co booth with colleagues if you want to chat about search, observability and developer life! See you there 👋

Looking forward to #kubeconeu in a couple of weeks. Chat with me at the @elastic.co booth, or at these events: @elastic.co and PagerDuty meetup: www.meetup.com/elastic-nl/e... OOPS! Happy Hour with Uptime Labs, @elastic.co and PagerDuty: luma.com/3hm471q5 Hope to see you there!

What tools are people using for debugging Grok expressions? I used to default to tools such as regex101.com. But this week I've been quite impressed with generating expressions using the AI generated pattern feature in @elastic.co Streams, or even Cursor CLI.

Coding at home with the wee one as well as at work ☺️. Does anyone recognise this game? #developer #devlife

To my #DevRel friends in the Netherlands, we're currently looking for an Advocate based in Amsterdam to join the @elastic.co team. If you have a passion for the developer community, events and writing code do consider applying! jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...

It's Elastic{ON} day! If you're around and have questions come say hi at the AMA booth! #elasticsearch #ama

The Agents and APIs meetup is this week! Join me on 12th Feb alongside speakers from Postman and Snyk to learn about #ai agent production practices such as #testing, #observability (by yours truly) and #security: luma.com/b51l0bug?tk=... See you then 👋 !

Thanks to all that came to my talk at @ndcconferences.com London on #contextengineering 🧠 . Slides and example code are all available 👇: github.com/carlyrichmon... Until next time! 👋

How much do you know about agentic memory and the role it plays in #contextengineering 🧠 ? If this is new to you join me at AI Coding Summit in February to find out! Register with my badge 👇 : gitnation.com/badges/ai-co... See you there! 👋

I'm looking forward to speaking at the Agents and APIs meetup on 12th Feb alongside speakers from Postman and Synk. If you're interested in agent production practices such as testing, observability and security do register to come along: luma.com/b51l0bug?tk=... See you then 👋 !

It's not just a case of swapping out one LLM with another in your agent and keeping everything else the same. Testing and validation when you change models, is important. See my example trying function gemma in place of gpt-4o 😅 . Can you guess which is which?

📣 Attention all Aspiring Speakers! Applications are still open for the Devoxx UK Aspiring Speakers slot, taking place in London in May. It's an opportunity to take to the stage for a short talk. Mentorship is provided. Submit your talk ideas 👉 : forms.gle/eQWm57hvX2Jf...

The new year is off to a great start as I can confirm I'll be speaking at @agilemanc.bsky.social in May about #opentelemetry for #monitoring and user experience evaluation! Schedule: agilemanchester.net/programme-2026 For 10% off tickets use my code 10Carly. See you then! 👋

I'm looking forward to the next Elastic London meetup on Wed Feb 25th ahead of Elastic{ON} London. We'll have talks from Mark Harwood on significant terms and Microsoft on building #genai games with Microsoft and #elasticsearch. Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast... See you there!

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! 👋