Amsterdam user group | The Secret Sauce of Faster, Better Vector Search

Join us for a meetup on the evening before ElasticON Amsterdam, November 25th in our Elastic office in Amsterdam! Doors open at 18.15 and the presentations begin at 18.30. Food, refreshments, and networking to follow. We wrap up around 21.00.

Address: Elastic's office, Keizersgracht 281, 1016 ED Amsterdam

Agenda:
18.15 Doors open
18.30 The Secret Sauce of Faster, Better Vector Search
19.10 Running a multi language product marketplace search with Elasticsearch
19.50 Observability at scale. About ECE large deployments based on experience of the customer
20.30 Networking, food with drinks
21.00 Wrap up

Talks:
The Secret Sauce of Faster, Better Vector Search
Get an overview of Elasticsearch's various improvements and quantization methodologies to make vector search faster and more affordable: SIMD, parallel search of segments, scalar quantization, and especially the latest addition of Better Binary Quantization (BBQ). And see a teaser of what Lucene 10 and Elasticsearch 9 will bring to the t̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ index.

Speaker: Steve Kearns, GM Search Solutions, Elastic

Running a multi language product marketplace search with Elasticsearch
Kaufland e-commerce owns and runs an online marketplace, spanning several countries and languages, searching tens of millions of products, millions of times per day. Elasticsearch has been the product search engine at Kaufland e-commerce for more than a decade, surviving the move from data centers into the cloud and the internal shift from a Monolith to Microservices.
Our team owns search from the microservices, maintaining the whole cluster up to improving relevance. We'll cover the journey of continuous improvement over the last years, finding surprising performance improvements and how we plan to evolve the search in the next years.

Speaker: Alexander Reelsen, Software & Search Engineer, Kaufland

Observability at scale. About ECE large deployments based on experience of the customer
In an era where data is central to decision-making, monitoring and observability become crucial to maintaining the health and performance of systems. This talk delves into the challenges and solutions involved in monitoring Elastic Cloud-managed Elasticsearch deployments at scale. Attendees will gain insights into how observability practices are applied to ensure these deployments run smoothly, even in complex and dynamic environments.

We will explore the use of DevOps techniques like Ansible for configuration management, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, and Python scripting for automation and customization. These tools enable efficient scaling, rapid deployment, and consistent monitoring, ensuring that data remains accessible and performant. Join us to learn how these techniques come together to create a robust and scalable observability solution for Elasticsearch in the cloud.

Speakers: Patrick Broek & Nick van Lammeren, consulting engineer, Devoteam

PS: Join ElasticON Amsterdam— a free, full-day conference on search, observability, and security with Elastic.