Join us at our office on Wednesday, March 13th, for a San Francisco Elastic User Group meetup. We'll have presentations by Brad Lhotsky (Security and Systems Administrator at Craigslist) and Sherry Ger (Principal Customer Enterprise Architect at Elastic), followed by networking, light bites, and refreshments.

Date and time:

Wednesday, March 13th, from 5:00 - 7:00 pm PDT

Location:

Elastic Office - 19th Floor

88 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA

RSVP Instructions:

Please register no later than Monday, March 11th, 2024. We need to provide a list of the attendees' names to building security 48 hours before the event. Visitors will need to check in at the lobby with an ID for access to the 19th floor.

Directions & Parking:

This Elastic office does not offer parking. Below are a few recommendations for nearby public parking garages. Please keep in mind that parking is not allowed to be expensed and must be paid for on your own.

• The White House Garage: 223 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94108
• Post Montgomery Center Garage: 173 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94101
• Paramount Garage: 177 Jessie St, San Francisco, CA 94105

Bart & Muni Information:

• The nearest BART station is Montgomery St. Station
• The nearest Muni Station is Market & New Montgomery

Agenda:

• 5:00 pm: Doors open; say hi, grab a seat, and eat some food.
• 5:15 pm: Elasticsearch Data Exploration in your Terminal followed by Q&A - Brad Lhotsky, Security and Systems Administrator at Craigslist
• 6:00 pm: Building blazing fast customer experience with Elasticsearch and Mistral 7B - Sherry Ger, Principal Customer Enterprise Architect at Elastic
• 6:30-7:00 pm: Networking & refreshments
• 7:00 pm: Event ends

Talk Abstracts:

Elasticsearch Data Exploration in your Terminal - Brad Lhotsky, Security and Systems Administrator at Craigslist

Kibana has revolutionized how we interface with our observability data. We can gain valuable insights with powerful visualizations. Yet, I'm often left wanting more. The browser has never been a 'power tool' for data analysis for me. While working with high-volume log data in Elasticsearch at Booking.com, I was left wanting some way to search, aggregate, and pipe data from Elasticsearch to other tools in my terminal. I created a tool based on the core UNIX principles to facilitate the types of queries we needed to perform analysis of our data. Since then, new features and capabilities have been added. I'll walk through how to use the tool to bring log data back into your terminal with a bit of flare! I will also touch on a few key design principles for scaling Elasticsearch to petabyte capacity with ease.

Building blazing fast customer experience with Elasticsearch and Mistral 7B - Sherry Ger, Principal Customer Enterprise Architect at Elastic

Mistral 7B is a major advance in LLM capabilities. It has outperformed Llama2 on various tasks and yet it is small enough to run on your laptop. In this talk, we will explore :

* Set up and run Mistral 7B locally

* Use Mistral 7B and Elasticsearch to extract knowledge, build blazing fast retrieval, and perform data analytics from unstructured text

Speaker Bio: Brad Lhotsky - Security and Systems Administrator at Craigslist

Brad is obsessed with automation and observability. He’s spent a career trying to replace himself with Perl scripts and still has way too much work to do! Brad gravitates to the intersection of observability, security, and people. He currently works for Craigslist as a Security and Systems administrator. He joined Craigslist after building and leading the security team at Booking.com. He started working with large Elasticsearch clusters in 2012.