final friday elky of the year — already in the well rounded holiday version 😀 I‘m off to europe for a bit now

finally got some billing alerts in @Elastic cloud less relevant with static setups. much more relevant with #serverless projects — don't judge all the projects running here full docs in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

is it time to move to @lobsters? the amount of LLM slop, astroturfing, sock puppeting,... in open channels is starting to get really annoying

TIL about #zswap "a compressed write-back cache for swapped pages, as a form of virtual memory compression". this will hopefully came in handy soon for performance :) also there are zram and zcache (https://askubuntu.com/a/472227 has a comparison)

riding into the christmas season #elkontheshelf

I spy a #jinaai model on elastic cloud 🙃

TIL about pyinfra — ansible but python instead of yaml and a lot faster I'd be interested in faster but I'm not sure I see the full advantage in python; at least not for the simple examples they show

scoring rubric of #kubecon: content, originality, relevance, speakers, not-a-product-pitch. and no obvious LLM abstracts. sounds widely applicable https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/submission-reviewer-guidelines/#scoring-rubric

fizzy advertising itself as open source — no huge shitstorm yet. maybe it's different for new code-bases PS: sane choice and a lot of similarities to the elastic license 😅

Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) bringing MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose to an open foundation with OpenAI, Anthropic, and many more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

side job of the day: making fully monitored coffees at #awsreinvent making developer dreams come true 😂 PS: dashboards are public on https://ela.st/beans-streams

hierarchy of (LLM coding( leverage): how CLAUDE md > specification > research > plan > code and how to write a good CLAUDE md — but keep it short https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md

But How Do AI Images and Videos Actually Work? diffusion models, CLIP, and the papers + math behind it — great weekend video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-5mZ_9CPY

the weekend #elkyfriday PS: don’t worry, not going to start a dedicated elky channel 😅

european bureaucracy: it "only" took 2.5 years to get a delayed flight paid out. and after all the costs (including a laywer) you only get 50%. but I'll still take the win 😉 PS: and I have an even older claim still under negotiations 🫠

what's the story with langchain vs langgraph? I thought the focus was switching over to langgraph but the contributions for langchain seem to have taken over again

how to end the week in the office: give elkie a belly rub

if you're in SF on monday, we'll have a hardware oriented meetup together with microsoft (right at the start of #MSIgnite): * Bad AI In A Box (BAIIAB) — making AI touch grass * monitor our coffee consumption — I can now live debug coffee from across the world […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

while we all love ourselves some ML, sometimes all you need is a little bit of math. great post from my colleague @alexandercanada on how to tune your shopping results based on history (with a function score) https://alexmarquardt.com/personalizing-search-in-elasticsearch-without-ml-post-processing/

#kubecon is on who is around and wants to meet this week?

got the right "business" cards for #kubecon sorry, no YAML 😉 this was more fun to build than expected: @Claudeai generated HTML design with a *download as image* button. @moo to print and ship them https://github.com/xeraa/code-card for the implementation

fun #tls fact: why would you want your own certificate authority (CA) over a public one? if you form a cluster (like elasticsearch), you want to control who can join. using a public CA, anyone could get a valid certificate for their own domain and add their server with the valid certificate to […]

the #elasticsearch API docs alway s had cURL and console examples. a while ago we added dynamic languages (python, JS, ruby, PHP) now, we have the first static language with java big API surface so this will come in handy. even if just to tell an LLM "no, use […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#calhacks was a crazy weekend. great projects with @Elastic agent builder, RAG, geo and timeseries data: https://lnkd.in/dJ6H5cAk PS: we also served a ton of (monitored) coffee. but that‘s for a separate post…

AWS outage / post-mortem: not one but two follow-up problems. and of course it started with DNS 😬 aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

#elasticon closing keynote by @swyx: the year agents ate search from RAG, agentic RAG, and context engineering subagents 🔮

how much data can you get from coffee? a lot ☕️ this has been a fun project — from sending the data with OTLP to watching every step. can‘t wait to bring it to events and show streams of logs to dashboards

next week will be extra packed in SF monday meetup: https://luma.com/smart-search * ghita, ZeroEntropy: search tools for efficient AI agents * jesse, fintools: LLMs and the next generation of financial search * josh, reducto: building a vision-first RAG pipeline with reducto and elasticsearch

reddit answers — and I‘m not sure if they are trying to troll me or not: wooden data centers 😅 sounds like a logstash situation too

and we got brand new toy. I hope that we can roll out coffee and related dashboards next week ☕️ #elasticon

we'll have #ElasticON SF next week. I'm especially excited to have convinced @swyx to join us for the closing keynote on "the year agents ate search" — let's see how much we can all agree or disagree here :D […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

AI gateways: envoy + elastic observability from adrian cole (we‘re going back to the zipkin days) #elasticon starting off with: what is agentic?

how do you get recommendations on tinder? a dee dive into the implementation of retrieval and ranking for millions of users and likes, billions of messages and swipes #elasticon

kicking off #elasticon NYC. I‘ll put the most relevant context (😉) in this thread — it will be a busy day starting with joining forces with #jinaai https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-jina-ai 🤗

so, vibe coding is over. now it‘s vibe engineering? though it‘s probably time to move beyond YOLO coding (for production) https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/

bringing more monitoring love to your self-managed / on-prem #elasticsearch clusters with AutoOps: pull stats with an OTel based agent, get recommendations and issue-detection in real-time PS: and soon inference on GPUs as well (so you don't have to go to OpenAI etc any more) 1/3

the joys of open source... also, poor everyone org on github 😅

wish that #reddit quotations in LLMs would stay low, so we could just have conversations and not fight all the spam and bots not sure how accurate the data is but interesting in any case: https://promptwatch.com/data/top-chatgpt-citations-by-domain

how to avoid deadlocks if you run 300 #elasticsearch clusters like palantir. and you pick the trickiest combination of configuration and client calls * concurrent synchronous refresh * wait_for with long refresh intervals "Defensive Databases: Optimizing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

if virtual hackathons are your thing, we might have something there (with decent 💸): https://ai-accelerate.devpost.com/ and with the new agent builder features (built-in LLM, queries as tools, native MCP,...) there are some useful new toys available for it too

new MCP registry from #github: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/meet-the-github-mcp-registry-the-fastest-way-to-discover-mcp-servers/ looking at the current npm security disaster, we definitely need more trusted sources for dependencies 😬

failure catalog of AI apps — not sure I've seen it spelt out that way before not sure what to think of the product behind it but the list and ways to approach the problem look pretty useful: https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/README.md#failure-catalog-with-fixes

build an intelligent query layer with MCP in #elasticsearch — from search to agent here's a preview how ES|QL queries turn into tools that get aggregated into agents — all served and built right in #kibana. and you can try this out today

TIL how to * subscribe to our release notes or * the @Elastic integrations (which are independent of stack releases) since two people asked a very similar question today. it's actually 3 simple steps 1/3

(re)ranking — going from hundreds retrieved results down to the few actually shown / used great to see that elastic reranking is also doing well in external benchmarks ;) google post […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

the enshittification of meetup.com continues (until everyone has migrated to lu.ma) * besides organizers paying for every group, upselling attendees with a "flash sale". we got some very confused attendees how we are trying to make them pay for our meetups 😵 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

awesome to see mcp-use on product hunt today! for everyone needing to build with or around MCP: https://www.producthunt.com/products/mcp-use and yes, we'll do a small hack night with them next week to put that to the test as well 😉 https://lu.ma/fqdql7kh

I recently joined Time4AI for a 20min chat, discussing how #elasticsearch and #kibana are transforming information retrieval for search, logs, observability, and security. from traditional keyword search to newer vector search (and hybrid search) to improve […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#elasticsearch REST API in .md — in case you need to point your LLM to the latest version and features it's been long overdue :) https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/rest-apis vs https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/rest-apis.md

#elasticsearch 9.1 / 8.19 release: continuing the optimizations, also for time-series — LogsDB and TSDS (time-series datastream) storage is commonly the most painful part, especially with longer retentions. but we're getting to 2x to 4x improvements over default indices 1/6