From the Edge to the Embedding: Open Source in Action

Let’s keep the momentum going from last month’s packed meetup! Join Portland’s cloud-native and platform-engineering community for an evening of real-world talks, demos, and hallway chat.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, Nov 6
• Time: 5:00–8:00 PM
• Location: Reperio Health, 4784 SE 17th Ave Suite 120, Portland, OR
• Recording: Talks are typically recorded (opt-in by speakers)

OpenSearch - Your Friendly Neighborhood Vector Database by Nathan Boot @ AWS

OpenSearch, aside from being a search, analytics, and observability solution, often gets overlooked as a fully functioning open source vector database. I’d very much like the opportunity to showcase the progress we’ve made here at the OpenSearch project implementing vector database operations and making them accessible to developers of all skill levels.

Let’s learn how to create and query vector embeddings, the basis for semantic search and RAG. You’ll get introduced to embeddings, vectors and semantic search in this “OpenSearch Vector Operations for Dummies” presentation. Hopefully it will bring a user-friendly path on a battle tested, fully open source platform.

Edge Orchestration: Challenges and Solutions by Scott Baker @ Intel

The edge differs from the cloud – rather than consisting of a handful of centralized infinitely-elastic Kubernetes clusters, the edge consists of thousands of geographically distributed edge nodes, often with constrained resources. The talk will begin with a discussion of the edge, how it differs from the cloud, and the unique challenges that this presents. After the overview of the edge, we will discuss Intel’s Open Edge Platform and its Edge Manageability Framework (EMF) that was built to demonstrate orchestration of edge nodes, Kubernetes Clusters, and applications to those clusters. The software is fully open source, actively developed, and readily available on GitHub.

We will discuss how we onboard and lifecycle the nodes, how we bring up Kubernetes clusters with our CAPI-based cluster management layer, and how we deploy and manage applications to those clusters. We will introduce technologies that enable the edge, such as Intel’s vPRO and Edge Microvisor Toolkit (EMT). We will talk about the architecture and design of this open-source project, and if time and connectivity permits, we will do a short demo to get a feel of the user interface.

Agenda

• 5:30–6:00 — Check-in, snacks, networking
• 6:00–6:30 — OpenSearch - Your Friendly Neighborhood Vector Database
• 6:30 - 7:00 — Edge Orchestration: Challenges and Solutions
• 7:00–8:00 — Networking (and games if anyone wants to bring some!)

Who Should Attend
Platform engineers, SREs, DevOps, app/platform teams, OSS maintainers, and anyone curious about Kubernetes, supply chain security, observability, eBPF/WASM, finops, or AI for infra/devex.

Sponsors

Venue Sponsor - Reperio Health
F&B Sponsor - AWS

Getting Here

Parking: There is parking to the right of the building if you are facing the entrance. You will see a gated chain fence parking area with a small sign that says "visitor parking". Please park there.

Biking: There is a bike rack inside the old "Vault" inside the lobby right next to Ruse. Once you walk through the double doors, you will see the bike vault to your left.

Once you arrive, you will see Ruse in front of the building and the double doors next to it. There will be signage out, so you will easily see where to go once you get here.