Elastic and Golang Sydney

Elastic and Golang Sydney has partnered to bring this incredible meetup to our communities!

The event will that place at the refurbished Elastic office in Sydney.

Please RSVP if you plan on attending. Registration closes on Wednesday, August 28th, so we can provide a list of names to building security.

Date & Time:
Thursday, August 29th, from 6:00-9:00 pm AEST

Location:
Elastic Office
60 Margaret St Level 36. Suite 2
SydneyNew South Wales NSW

Agenda:
📍 18.00 - 18.30 Guests arrival

👩🏻‍💻 18:30 - 18:40 Opening: Golang Community in Sydney
Katie Fry, Co-founder GopherCon Australia

👩🏻‍💻 18:40 - 18:50 Opening: Elastic Community
Gabi Amaral, Community Programs @ Elastic

👩🏻‍💻 18.50 - 19.30 #Talk 1 - Practical GenAI with Go
Adrian Cole, Principal Engineer @ Elastic
Summary: As gophers, we're used to a new technology buzz every several years. Generative AI has excited us with ChatGPT and AI assistants, but the practical side may be more intimidating than most recent buzz. This is due in part to a large and deep landscape of tools, databases and jargon, as well as Python centrism.
This session is a programmer perspective, to begin your foothold in AI with Go. We'll bind some jargon such as prompt, vector database, LLM, model, and RAG to simple working code. You'll work exclusively in Go, and offline via Ollama, itself written in Go.
As this is an introduction, you won't leave as a GenAI Engineer, but you will leave with a practical start to whatever journey you may have ahead.

🍕 19.30 - 20.10 Food, networking

👨🏻‍💻 20.10 - 20.50 #Talk 2 - Contributing to open source projects
Miguel Santos, Staff Platform Engineer @ Safety Culture
Summary: The open source community is the backbone of the huge development in every technology around us. Contributing back to the community means we are doing our part to keep this movement alive!
Let's join Miguel and walk through the steps of creating our first pull-request to an open source project - including a personal story of finding out the "company you just joined" uses your open source package!

- What does it take to create a contribution?
- What projects should I pick?
- Planning
- Roadmaping
- Handling feedback
- Licensing
- Merge and release

📍 20.50 - 21.00 Raffle and Closing

Elastic Sydney Office is located in Barangaroo it is centrally located and is only 1 minute walk from Wynyard Station where there is a hub of transportation.

Invite your friends and join us.

Speakers:
Adrian Cole is a software engineer working at Elastic. He’s been a routine contributor to open source for over ten years. Lately, he spends most of his time on OpenTelemetry. His past notable project work includes wazero, Zipkin, OpenFeign, and Apache jclouds.

Miguel Santos, a Platform Engineer for over a decade, specialises in building Kubernetes-native platforms at scale using Go.