Search, Streams, and System Design Tradeoffs

Details Join us to learn something new and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security. Agenda: 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi and eat some food 6:00 pm: “12 Levels of Search — Easy to Complex” , by Jon Avezbaki, Developer Advocate at Elastic 6:30 pm: Q&A with Jon 6:40 pm: "One Does Not Simply Query a Stream" , by Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent 7:10 pm: Q&A with Viktor 7:20 - 7:30 pm: Networking and event wrap-up Abstracts: “ 12 Levels of Search — Easy to Complex ” You can’t learn calculus without arithmetic. Search is no different. In this talk, we’ll go over a full, high-level overview of search engineering. We’ll start with the basics, and then make our way through more intermediate and advanced topics, like RAG and agentic memory. This is not a talk that will dive into any one area of search in great detail. Rather, it aims to provide a birds-eye prespective of the field so that we can begin to understand what topics and best practices we may be lacking in our understanding. These potentially unexplored avenues can significantly…