OpenSearch Con NA 2025 | Highlights from the community and the conference

Keynote: The OpenSearch Community, Building the Future Together, AWS, NVIDIA and SAP

Keynote: Advancing Search and Observability at Uber with OpenSearch – Shanshan Song, Uber

Keynote: OpenSearch at Atlassian Scale – Fernando Garcia Valenzuela

Keynote: The Aryn Journey – Growing a Gen AI Startup on OpenSearch and the Road Ahead – Mehul Shah

Keynote: Welcome Back – Kassian Wren, Open Source Technology Evangelist, NetApp Instraclustr

Keynote: Beyond Vector Search: Building Ultra-Resilient GenAI Applications with PostgreSQL-Compatible Architecture – Karthik Ranganathan, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, YugabyteDB

Scaling OpenSearch: Next-Generation Shard Allocation for High-Performance Clusters – Rishab Nahata, Arpit Bandejiya & Himshikha Gupta

CYOP: Create Your Own Plugin – Gaurav Gupta; Nishtha Mittal & Craig Perkins, Amazon Web Services

10 Billion Downloads: Insights and Trends in Open Source – Avi Press, Scarf

Migrating Queries From Lens and Saved Objects — Data Tangles To Data Order – Sarah Hudspeth & Jason Ng, Chronosphere

Resilient Segment Replication With Adaptive Refresh – Vigya Sharma, Amazon Web Services

Leveraging Digital Twins and OpenSearch for Personalized Customer Experiences – Satej Sahu

Enhancing Query Performance Through Intelligent Data Co-location – Rishav Sagar & Tejas Shah

Optimizing LLM Performance With Caching Strategies in OpenSearch – Uri Rosenberg & Sherin Chandy

From Bottlenecks To Breakthroughs: Optimizing Aggregation in OpenSearch for Lightning-Fast Analytics – Ankit Jain, Amazon Web Services

From LLM-as-a-Judge To Human-in-the-Loop: Rethinking Evaluation in RAG and Search With OpenSearch – Eric Pugh, OpenSource Connections & Fernando Rejon Barrera, Zeta Alpha

Beyond RAG – Going From Search to Analytics on Unstructured Data with Aryn – Mehul Shah, Aryn

Deep Dive Into OpenSearch Pull-Based Ingestion at Uber – Varun Bharadwaj & Yupeng Fu, Uber

Operating an OpenSearch Powered E-commerce Search Engine at Scale – Lucian Precup & Amine Gani

Ingestion at Scale: Open Source Pipelines for Getting Data Into OpenSearch – Anurag Gupta, Chronosphere & Kevin Fallis, Amazon Web Services

From Bug To PR: Turning Customer Pain Points Into Upstream Contributions – Brian Graf & Alex Bunday

Autoscaling Search and Analytics in Kubernetes: The OpenSearch Operator Advantage – Pawel Wlodarczyk

Why Content (no, Not Just Docs) Needs More From the Open-Source Community – Kassian Wren

Building Modern Observability Architecture With OpenSearch, OS Ingestion and AWS OpenSource Stack – Luis Tiani & Lucas Vieira

Query Understanding With Large Language Models: Techniques and Optimizations in OpenSearch – Hajer Bouafif & Cédric Pelvet, Amazon Web Services

Mastering OpenSearch Benchmark: Advanced Techniques for Power Users – Govind Kamat & Rishabh Singh

Kubernetes Under the Magnifying Glass: Observability With OpenSearch – Arnab Chatterjee, Nomura

Growing a Vibrant Open Source OpenSearch Community in China – Charlie Yang, Amazon Web Services

Managing the Managed: Advanced Automation and Security for Amazon OpenSearch Service – Luciano Taranto & Derrike Nunn, Amazon Web Services

Building Next-gen Search With OpenSearch – Pietro Mele & Lucian Precup, Adelean

Use OpenSearch as Your Vector Search Database To Optimize GenAI Accuracy! – Anil Inamdar

Beyond Single Vectors: Multi-Vector Search for Enhanced Relevance and Interpretability – Praveen Mohan Prasad & Gene Alpert, Amazon Web Services

A Deep Dive Into OpenSearch Plugin Architecture and Introducing Hot Reload Functionality – Pranav Garg & Aman Kumar, Amazon Web Services

Agentic AI Meets Search: Real-World Use Cases With OpenSearch MCP Support – Aditya Soni, Forrester Research; Seema Saharan, Autodesk; Anshika Tiwari, Amazon Web Services

Implementing Piped Processing Language in OpenSearch Via Apache Calcite – Lantao Jin & Heng Qian

Mastering OpenSearch Snapshots: From Basics To Advanced Strategies – Ashish Singh & Chaitanya KSR

OpenSearch Joins a Foundation: A Blueprint for Community-Led Migration – Jiaxiang Zhu & Saurabh Singh

Extending OpenSearch: A Practical Guide To Building Custom Plugins – Lucian Precup & Oceane Piedallu

Derived Source: Slash Storage Costs Without Losing Data in OpenSearch – Mohit Godwani & Tanik Pansuriya, Amazon Web Services

Digging Into OpenSearch’s Memory: Lucene and JVM Garbage Collection Under the Microscope – Yeonghyeon Ko, SK hynix

From Chaos To Clarity: Centralizing Observability With OpenSearch at Scale – Ido Ziv, Kaltura

Orchestrating Multimodal RAG With Agentic Workflows – Bobby Mohammed & Surya Kari

Innovating at Scale: Lessons from Pegasystems’ OpenSearch Journey – Amanda Katona & Satya Mishra

AI-Ready Data Foundation Using Amazon OpenSearch – Navnit Shukla & Gagan Brahmi, Amazon Web Services

Accelerating OpenSearch With Streaming: Apache Arrow, Flight, DataFusion and gRPC – Saurabh Singh & Harsha Vamsi, Amazon Web Services

AI & OpenSearch: Confronting the New Frontier of Security & Compliance Burdens – Hugo Huang & Mohamed Nsiri, Canonical

Securing Data With Cedar – Michael Schwartz, Gluu

DTEX’s OpenSearch Journey: From Migration to Innovation – Prashant Agrawal & Sulabh Jain

From Kernel To Cloud: Building a Complete Open Source Observability Pipeline – Anirudha Jadhav & Shenoy Pratik Gurudatt, Amazon Web Services

Operating OpenSearch at Scale: Lessons From Managing 10,000+ Clusters Across Hyperscalers – Hariharan Gandhi, SAP SE

Next-Gen Search: How Uber and the OpenSearch Community Built a Cloud Native 3.0 – Shubham Gupta, Uber

Introducing OpenSearch’s Search Relevance Workbench! – Eric Pugh & Stavros Macrakis

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Discover Your OpenSearch Cluster’s Breaking Point With Redline Testing – Mike Oviedo & Rishabh Singh, Amazon Web Services

OTeL/Piped Processing Language: Simplifying Observability Queries With OpenTelemetry Query Semantics – Peng Huo & Ashwin Pc, Amazon Web Services

OpenTelemetry With OpenSearch: Use-Cases, Status and Roadmap – Itamar Syn-Hershko, Pulse

Integrating Realtime User Behavioral Embeddings Into OpenSearch – Trey Grainger, Searchkernel

Capacity Planning, and Scaling/Optimization for Vector Workloads – Jon Handler, Amazon Web Services

From Traces To Action: Auto-Instrumenting LLMs for Observability With OpenTelemetry & OpenSearch – Aditya Soni, Forrester Research & Anshika Tiwari, Amazon Web Services

OpenSearch and the Path to a Trillion-scale Vector Database – Vamshi Vijay Nakkirtha

Advancing OpenSearch With gRPC and Protobuf at Uber: A High-Performance API for Modern Search – Karen Xu & Shuyi Zhang, Uber

Repeatable Benchmarking: An Exploration of OpenSearch Vs Elasticsearch – Evan Downing, Trail of Bits

The Imitation Game: Encapsulate Your OSB Workload at Scale – Ian Hoang & Govind Kamat

OpenSearch Flow and Agent Frameworks: Easy AI – Jon Handler, Amazon Web Services

Vital Signs: OpenSearch and Bioobservability – Nate Boot, OpenSearch

Beyond the Code: Evolving OpenSearch’s Release Process for Community Scale – Jiaxiang Zhu & Sayali Gaikawad, Amazon Web Services

OpenSearch Migrations: Modernize Without Worry – Peter Nied & Brian Presley, Amazon Web Services

GenAIOps – OpenSearch for AI & GenAI Platform Observability – Ramesh Kumar Manickam & Rama Pabolu

Using OpenSearch as a Database With DataFusion – Marc Handalian & Michael Froh

Introducing the OCSF Normalization Playground for Preparing Data for OCSF Pipelines Using Data Prepper – Kevin Fallis, Amazon Web Services & Chris Helma, Alto Pharmacy

Building Intelligent Search Systems With Agentic RAG and OpenSearch – Vivek Gautam & Rushabh Lokhande

Unlocking GPU Powers for Vector Search: OpenSearch’s New Frontier – Navneet Verma & Jay Deng

Fine-Grained Authorization for Secure RAG With OpenSearch – Juan Pablo Noreña, Canonical

A Visual AI Search Flow Builder for OpenSearch: Build GenAI and Vector Search Solutions Faster – Tyler Ohlsen & Owais Kazi, Amazon Web Services

Sharding 2.0: Unlocking Infinite Search Scalability in OpenSearch – Vikas Bansal & Paras Jain

Vector Search Beyond the Hype: Real-World Implementation and Performance Insights – Samuel Herman

Flexible OpenSearch Data Management With Apache Iceberg: Data Versioning and Incremental Processing – Sotaro Hikita & Shuhei Fukami, Amazon Web Services

Keynote: Welcome Back – Eric Pugh, Founder, OpenSource Connections

Unconference: OpenSearch is not a database! – Gene Alpert, Sr. Analytics Specialist TAM, AWS

Unconference: Python Now! An OpenSearch world with/in/on Python – Eric Pugh & Charlie Yang

Unconference: Explainable Vector Search – Praveen Mohan Prasad, Analytics Specialist, AWS

Unconference: How will AI + Search (IR) converge? – Stavros Macrakis, Product Manager, Search, AWS

Unconference: Self-optimizing deep research agents – Jakub Zavrel, Founder and CEO, Zeta Alpha

Unconference: Context is all you need? – Navnit Shukla, AWS

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