Melbourne Search & AI Meetup #2 - Hosted by Atlassian

Hello, and welcome to the second Melbourne Search & AI User Group Meetup.

Below you will find the agenda + talk summaries

Location: IN PERSON ONLY. There will be no streaming of this meetup
Level 20
Queen & Collins Tower
100 Queen Street

Agenda:
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Arrivals, Networking, Pizza & Drinks
6:00 PM – 6:05 PM: Welcome & Housekeeping
6:05 PM – 6:35 PM: First Speaker - Huy Nguyen, Atlassian
6:35 PM – 6:50 PM: Second Speaker - Bart Breen, Atlassian
6.50 - 7.10 PM: Third Speaker - TBC
7:10 PM – 7:30 PM Wrap-up & Networking

First Talk: How Atlassian operates self-hosted OpenSearch at scale

Speaker: Huy Nguyen: Technical Lead at Atlassian
Connect with Huy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huy-nguyen-073a9023/

Summary: In this session, we will share how our architecture efficiently provisions and manages OpenSearch clusters at scale in Atlassian. We will also discuss how we address reliability and operational scalability through resilient infrastructure and comprehensive monitoring. Additionally, we will highlight how we leverage and extend open-source software, and outline our plans to contribute back to the OpenSearch community, reinforcing our commitment to innovation and collaboration.

Second Talk: OpenSearch image authoring: Taking control of the supply chain.

Speaker: Bart Breen: Senior Engineer at Atlassian, passionate about cloud infrastructure and practice.
Connect with Bart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-breen/

Summary: Ever wondered how OpenSearch images are built, and contain all the plugins they do? In this session, we’ll talk about how we built Atlassian’s OpenSearch Image Pipeline to allow for greater control of the dependencies and patching process, and the challenges along the way.

We will share the online recording of the sessions after the event.