Elastic Zagreb - October 4th

After our summer break, Elastic Zagreb meetup No.4 is back in town! Once again, we’re here to cater all your search related needs 😉

The Meetup will take place in Trikoder on Thursday, October 4th.

Full schedule and talks descriptions are below.

This group is for anyone interested in open source search, logging, analytics, and data visualization. We primarily focus on these open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — but we welcome talks on any aspect of data exploration.

--- The talks ---

Similarity search using machine learning and Elasticsearch
by Dominik Šafarić, software engineer at Styria Data Science

Deep dive into the love fairytale of machine learning and Elasticsearch. In this inspiring talk we’ll describe our unique, tailor-made extensions of Apache Lucene and Elasticsearch for image and text similarity search using state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms able to serve millions of search queries.

Dominik is a software engineer at Styria Data Science, where he works on several high throughput machine learning based and distributed systems.

Elasticsearch (R)Evolution — You Know, for Search…
by Philipp Krenn, developer advocate at Elastic

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene. After the initial release in 2010 it has become the most widely used full-text search engine, but it is not stopping there.
The revolution happened and now it is time for evolution. We dive into the following questions:

• How did leniency help the initial adoption, but why and how do we lean more on strictness today?
• How can upgrades be improved to avoid any downtime even when changing major versions?
• How can new resiliency features improve recovery scenarios and add totally new features?
• Why are types finally disappearing and how are we are trying to avoid the upgrade pain as much as possible?
• What are examples for some clever performance improvements?
• How can you shrink and (finally) split shards in a highly efficient way?
  Attendees learn both about new and upcoming features as well as the motivation and engineering challenges behind them.

Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for more than ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the open source Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly travelling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss about open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security.

--- The schedule ---

17:30 Warm up drinks and snacks
18:00 Opening word
18:15 Similarity search using machine learning and Elasticsearch by Dominik Šafarić
18:45 Break
19:00 Elasticsearch (R)Evolution — You Know, for Search… by Philipp Krenn
19:30 Drinks and Pizzas :)

Please have your IDs ready at the building entrance because of the tower's security policy.

The entrance is free of charge and will take place in Trikoder.