Elasticsearch & GitLab's AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform + Intro to OTel w/ Flask

The Elastic Developer Relations Team will be in town sponsoring Open Source North, and we will be hosting a joint lunch meetup with GitLab following the conference on Thursday, June 6th, 2024.

Take a lunch break and join us at Improving for an afternoon of presentations and networking.

Please RSVP if you plan on attending so we have an estimate of expected attendees for the pizza order.

Thank you to Improving for hosting our meetup. Improving is a modern digital services consulting firm focused on solving business problems with innovative technical solutions.

Date and Time:
Thursday, June 6th, from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm CDT

Location:
Improving Minneapolis: 1515 Central Ave NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Parking:
Upon arrival, please navigate to the back of the building where there is a large free parking lot.

Arrival Instructions:
If arriving from the back parking lot, enter the building from the back door (it will look like a warehouse entrance). There will be signage to make it easy to find and navigate. Walk down the hallway and then you will enter the office space through the basketball court. The Improving team will be there to greet attendees.

Agenda:

• 11:00 am: Doors open; say hi, grab a seat, and eat some food.
• 11:30 am: Elasticsearch & GitLab's AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform followed by Q&A - Matt Genelin, Channel Solutions Architect at GitLab
• 12:00 pm: Introduction to OpenTelemetry with Flask - Jessica Garson, Sr. Developer Advocate at Elastic
• 12:20-1:00 pm: Networking
• 1:00 pm: Event ends

Talk Abstracts:
Elasticsearch & GitLab's AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform - Matt Genelin, Channel Solutions Architect at GitLab

Searching across Git project repositories can be difficult. GitLab self-managed can be configured to make use of Elasticsearch for fast, performant searching. In this 30 minute talk, Matt Genelin will demo how to enable and use Elasticsearch with a self-installed instance of GitLab.

Introduction to OpenTelemetry with Flask - Jessica Garson, Sr. Developer Advocate at Elastic

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a comprehensive suite of APIs, libraries, and tools designed to collect, generate, and export telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces, from software applications. This talk will cover critical concepts related to OTel and show you how to integrate it into your Flask app.