About us
Welcome OpenSearch & Valkey communities! If you’re in the Bay Area and have used or are interested in OpenSearch or Valkey, you’re in the right place!
This is a group for anyone interested in OpenSearch! Whether that is search engineering, open source search technology, AI, observability, or search relevancy, come join us.
This meetup also features Valkey - the open source, high-performance caching and key-value store backed by the Linux Foundation. Come learn how Valkey and OpenSearch work together as part of a modern, fully open source data stack.
All skill levels are welcome. Even if search is just a small part of your day-to-day duties, come learn and connect with other smart engineers. We cover and welcome talks on topics including: search, logging, log analytics, data visualization, and high performance key value store.
Upcoming events
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OpenSearch & Valkey User Group launch!
AWS Builder Loft, San Francisco, CA, USJoin us for an evening exploring the open source data stack powering the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop the official OTel reference demo used by 30+ vendors as their observability showcase.
Please register here to secure your spot.
We'll walk through a real-world architecture where:
- 🐘 PostgreSQL stores your source of truth
- ⚡ Valkey caches the hot path for sub-millisecond response times
- 📡 OpenTelemetry instruments everything end-to-end
- 🔍 OpenSearch gives you unified traces, metrics, and logs in one place
Agenda
- 5:30 PM 🍕 Doors open - food, drinks & networking
- 6:00 PM Welcome & context setting
- 6:15 PM Valkey as a caching layer on PostgreSQL cache invalidation patterns, data consistency & performance benchmarks
- 6:45 PM OTel + OpenSearch full-stack observability with traces, metrics & logs in a unified view. The OTel Astronomy Shop end-to-end cache misses, cache hits, and traces flowing into OpenSearch
- 7:15 PM Q&A & open discussion
- 7:30 PM 🍻 Pizza, drinks & networking until 8 PM
Who should come?
- Backend engineers evaluating Valkey as caching layers on PostgreSQL
- Platform / infra engineers setting up observability pipelines or evaluating OpenSearch for log analytics
- Open source contributors interested in Valkey, OpenSearch, or the OTel ecosystem
- Engineering leaders navigating vendor vs. open source infrastructure decisions
What you'll walk away with
- A clear understanding of how PostgreSQL, Valkey, and OpenSearch work together in production
- Hands-on familiarity with the OpenTelemetry Demo and how to extend it
- Practical caching and observability patterns you can apply immediately
- Access to all demo code and configuration files
- Info on how to contribute to both projects
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🍕 Food and drinks provided.
💡 No prior OpenTelemetry experience required just bring your curiosity.
Two Linux Foundation projects. One stack. Zero lock-in. See you there! 🚀🚨 PLEASE READ 🚨
IMPORTANT: RSVPing on Meetup is not enough. Please register here to secure your spot: https://events.builder.aws.com/Nygdny4 attendees
