2024 July OpenSearch Project User Group [Bellevue]

Anyone using or interested in using, contributing, maintaining, or who wants to know more about OpenSearch and who can come to our Seattle venue is welcome.

For this session, we will meetup at
Amazon/Dynamo Room 02.201
The address to drive to is: 85 106th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
(Please let the organizer know how your parking experience was. Email prnsndr@gmail.com)

Speakers and Sessions
Announcements:
It's OpenSearch's 3rd birthday. Let's celebrate this!
Quarterly User Group Session

Agenda
5pm to 5:15pm Check in
5:15 to 5:30pm Pizza and Cake
5:30-6pm Mingyang Shi
6-6:15pm Break
6:15-6:45pm Nate Boot
6:45-7pm Break
7pm onward general discussion on OpenSearch and User Group

Speakers:
Mingyang Shi [Data Scientist at Bayland Health]
Bio: I love learning new techs and meeting new friends. I'm a data enthusiast and a perfectionist. I am a dog person and would spend the whole weekend just to be with my lovely puppy. Happy to connect!
Topic: Performance Benchmarking with OpenSearch: What It's Like to Become a Contributor
Level: Intermediate
Description: OpenSearch Benchmark is a vital tool for users to evaluate the performance of OpenSearch clusters. It provides critical insights into infrastructure efficiency and areas for improvement. As a maintainer of the opensearch-benchmark repository, I will introduce this powerful tool, help you understand the workloads, and teach you how to run your own benchmarking in test mode. Additionally, I will share my journey from joining the project to becoming an active contributor. Discover the importance of benchmarking in optimizing your OpenSearch environment and gain practical insights from my experiences.

Nate Boot [OpenSearch Developer Advocate]
Bio: I’m hardcore but approachable. I love tech, retro PC video games, bad jokes, and my Padawan youngling. I’m at your service
Topic: Brains Wanted (I swear we’re not zombies!): Empowering a new career with your own creativity
Level: Beginner
Description: Contributing to open source projects has genuine potential to break the oft-joked-about cycle of needing a job to get experience but needing experience to get a job. It showcases not just your coding skills but your expertise, giving employers something tangible to examine. Collaborating with experienced developers also provides learning opportunities that are sometime beyond what you might get in a classroom. It demonstrates commitment, initiative, and teamwork, qualities highly valued by employers. Additionally, many tech companies actively seek out contributors to popular projects, creating direct pathways to job opportunities. Networking within the open source community can lead to genuinely strong connections in many job fields.

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OpenSearch User Group is a place to meet users of OpenSearch, the community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed, open source search and analytics suite derived from ElasticSearch. We will share ideas and stories to help each other get the most out of the OpenSearch stack of tools.

Every quarter we plan to meet and review updates and talks