Carly Richmond
@carlyrichmond.bsky.social
Developer 🥑 Lead @ Elastic. UI and web developer. Loves cooking, tea, photography and gin! All views are my own. She/ Her. Also at @carlyrichmond@mastodon.social
There's still time to submit your talk ideas to the FOSDEM Search room (or indeed any of the other Devrooms). We would love to see your submissions on anything #search related:
pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
There's still time to submit your talk ideas to the FOSDEM Search room (or indeed any of the other Devrooms). We would love to see your submissions on anything #search related:
pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/...
pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/...
Reposted by Carly Richmond
FOSDEM 2026 - Accepted developer rooms
Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026
fosdem.org
November 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Next week is going to be busy💨 ! But I'm excited to be speaking at GDG Bletchley on Sat 15th Nov on building #ai agents with Next.js, AI SDK, Google Gemma 3 and #elasticsearch.
Hope to chat and see some amazing talks at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park 🖥️ !
Hope to chat and see some amazing talks at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park 🖥️ !
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Next week is going to be busy💨 ! But I'm excited to be speaking at GDG Bletchley on Sat 15th Nov on building #ai agents with Next.js, AI SDK, Google Gemma 3 and #elasticsearch.
Hope to chat and see some amazing talks at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park 🖥️ !
Hope to chat and see some amazing talks at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park 🖥️ !
#js developers 📣! There's still time to sign up for @halfstackconf.bsky.social London on Wed 12th November. There's some great talks on the list, including myself talking about #vectorsearch.
Here's my 10% off code if you still haven't got your 🎫 (😱):
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
See you there! 👋
Here's my 10% off code if you still haven't got your 🎫 (😱):
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
See you there! 👋
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#js developers 📣! There's still time to sign up for @halfstackconf.bsky.social London on Wed 12th November. There's some great talks on the list, including myself talking about #vectorsearch.
Here's my 10% off code if you still haven't got your 🎫 (😱):
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
See you there! 👋
Here's my 10% off code if you still haven't got your 🎫 (😱):
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
See you there! 👋
The next @elastic.co London meetup is at the office on 18th Nov. We'll hear from @elastic.co's Elena and Giorgos on 9.2's Streams which use #ai to streamline log processing and routing.
Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast...
We have 1 speaking slot available. DM me if you would like to speak! 👋
Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast...
We have 1 speaking slot available. DM me if you would like to speak! 👋
Introducing Streams for Observability with Elastic, Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
The Elastic Developer Relations Team welcome you to another community meetup in London and this time, taking place at our office!
Our Lead Developer Advocate **Carly Richm
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November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The next @elastic.co London meetup is at the office on 18th Nov. We'll hear from @elastic.co's Elena and Giorgos on 9.2's Streams which use #ai to streamline log processing and routing.
Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast...
We have 1 speaking slot available. DM me if you would like to speak! 👋
Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast...
We have 1 speaking slot available. DM me if you would like to speak! 👋
I'm looking forward to speaking and also hearing from some fab speakers at @halfstackconf.bsky.social London again this year. 🎉
If you still don't have your ticket ( 😲 ) feel free to use my 10% off code:
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
Hope to see you there! ☺️👋
If you still don't have your ticket ( 😲 ) feel free to use my 10% off code:
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
Hope to see you there! ☺️👋
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I'm looking forward to speaking and also hearing from some fab speakers at @halfstackconf.bsky.social London again this year. 🎉
If you still don't have your ticket ( 😲 ) feel free to use my 10% off code:
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
Hope to see you there! ☺️👋
If you still don't have your ticket ( 😲 ) feel free to use my 10% off code:
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
Hope to see you there! ☺️👋
How do you feel about public speaking with auto-rotating slides. 😱 perhaps? Join us at Aspiring Speakers on 4th November as we talk about how Ignite talks work, why they are great practice, and how to get started with them.
Sign up 👇
luma.com/trbd67xl?loc...
See you there! 👋
Sign up 👇
luma.com/trbd67xl?loc...
See you there! 👋
Demystifying Ignite Talks with Aspiring Speakers · Zoom · Luma
We're back with another amazing lunchtime session with new and established speakers, this time focused on Ignite talks. If you don't know what they are, or how…
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October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
How do you feel about public speaking with auto-rotating slides. 😱 perhaps? Join us at Aspiring Speakers on 4th November as we talk about how Ignite talks work, why they are great practice, and how to get started with them.
Sign up 👇
luma.com/trbd67xl?loc...
See you there! 👋
Sign up 👇
luma.com/trbd67xl?loc...
See you there! 👋
Have you played with the new @elastic.co Agent Builder yet? I've been fortunate enough to have an early play with it to solve the problem of finding the set that elusive LEGO piece belongs to 🧱. Check out how it works in the brief video 👇.
#ai #elasticsearch #contextengineering
#ai #elasticsearch #contextengineering
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Have you played with the new @elastic.co Agent Builder yet? I've been fortunate enough to have an early play with it to solve the problem of finding the set that elusive LEGO piece belongs to 🧱. Check out how it works in the brief video 👇.
#ai #elasticsearch #contextengineering
#ai #elasticsearch #contextengineering
It's been a busy month of conferences, so I'm looking forward to enjoying an online instalment of #AICodingSummit on October 23rd. Join me as I talk about context engineering, explaining what #context is and why it's important when building #ai #agents. See you then!
aicodingsummit.com
aicodingsummit.com
AI Coding Summit - See how AI transforms software development
Don’t get left behind—discover how AI is revolutionizing software engineering at the AI Coding Summit. Dive into cutting-edge talks and hands-on workshops on AI-powered software development. Network w...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It's been a busy month of conferences, so I'm looking forward to enjoying an online instalment of #AICodingSummit on October 23rd. Join me as I talk about context engineering, explaining what #context is and why it's important when building #ai #agents. See you then!
aicodingsummit.com
aicodingsummit.com
NYC #devrel friends, if you're open to a new role we're hiring for a Senior Developer Advocate here at @elastic.co. If you love building content, code and sharing at conferences and meetups do apply. We would love to see an application from you.
Details 👇
jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...
Details 👇
jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...
Senior Developer Advocate
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI P...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
NYC #devrel friends, if you're open to a new role we're hiring for a Senior Developer Advocate here at @elastic.co. If you love building content, code and sharing at conferences and meetups do apply. We would love to see an application from you.
Details 👇
jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...
Details 👇
jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...
I've been enjoying playing around with #MCP and #ai agents recently. This article from my colleagues on MCP security was an interesting morning read 📖:
www.elastic.co/security-lab...
It gives a clear overview of attack vectors such as poisoning and best practices. Enjoy! 😊👋
www.elastic.co/security-lab...
It gives a clear overview of attack vectors such as poisoning and best practices. Enjoy! 😊👋
MCP Tools: Attack Vectors and Defense Recommendations for Autonomous Agents — Elastic Security Labs
This research examines how Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools expand the attack surface for autonomous agents, detailing exploit vectors such as tool poisoning, orchestration injection, and rug-pull r...
www.elastic.co
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I've been enjoying playing around with #MCP and #ai agents recently. This article from my colleagues on MCP security was an interesting morning read 📖:
www.elastic.co/security-lab...
It gives a clear overview of attack vectors such as poisoning and best practices. Enjoy! 😊👋
www.elastic.co/security-lab...
It gives a clear overview of attack vectors such as poisoning and best practices. Enjoy! 😊👋
I'm back again chatting all things #observability at @devopsdays.london! I'm on the Elastic booth with my colleague Carson Ip before taking the stage tomorrow to talk at lightning speed ⚡ about #otel client instrumentation.
Come say hi 👋
Come say hi 👋
September 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I'm back again chatting all things #observability at @devopsdays.london! I'm on the Elastic booth with my colleague Carson Ip before taking the stage tomorrow to talk at lightning speed ⚡ about #otel client instrumentation.
Come say hi 👋
Come say hi 👋
I'm speaking on Sept 18th at #DevNight London with
@auth0byokta.bsky.social, @digitalocean.com, and @langchain.bsky.social! I’ll share how developers can apply #GenAI + @elastic.co's #elasticsearch to solve real-world problems. 🧠
Register 👉 luma.com/9ddc7fmn
See you there! 👋
@auth0byokta.bsky.social, @digitalocean.com, and @langchain.bsky.social! I’ll share how developers can apply #GenAI + @elastic.co's #elasticsearch to solve real-world problems. 🧠
Register 👉 luma.com/9ddc7fmn
See you there! 👋
dev_night London · Luma
dev_night London: From Prompt to Production
[In-person event in London]
This developer-focused meetup hosted by Auth0 in collaboration with DigitalOcean and…
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September 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I'm speaking on Sept 18th at #DevNight London with
@auth0byokta.bsky.social, @digitalocean.com, and @langchain.bsky.social! I’ll share how developers can apply #GenAI + @elastic.co's #elasticsearch to solve real-world problems. 🧠
Register 👉 luma.com/9ddc7fmn
See you there! 👋
@auth0byokta.bsky.social, @digitalocean.com, and @langchain.bsky.social! I’ll share how developers can apply #GenAI + @elastic.co's #elasticsearch to solve real-world problems. 🧠
Register 👉 luma.com/9ddc7fmn
See you there! 👋
I'm excited to share my latest piece is live. I've been learning about the new theme of #context engineering. I share what it is, what the key components are, and why it's important in the building of #ai #agents and agentic applications:
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
Enjoy! 👋
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
Enjoy! 👋
Context engineering: LLM structured output, RAG & more components - Elasticsearch Labs
Learn about context engineering and its core components: RAG, prompt engineering, memory management, and structured outputs to improve LLM responses. Slug: context-engineering-overview
www.elastic.co
September 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm excited to share my latest piece is live. I've been learning about the new theme of #context engineering. I share what it is, what the key components are, and why it's important in the building of #ai #agents and agentic applications:
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
Enjoy! 👋
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
Enjoy! 👋
The next Elastic London #meetup is on Sept 15th. Join us for 🍕 and talks from Alam Ahmed on automating Elastic deployments with #terraform and myself covering frontend web #observability with #otel #opentelemetry and #elastic. 🎉
Register:
www.meetup.com/london-elast...
See you then!👋
Register:
www.meetup.com/london-elast...
See you then!👋
Elastic Observability in London, Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
The Elastic Developer Relations Team will be in town for DevOpsDays London 2025, and we will be hosting an Observability meetup before the conference!
Our incredible Lead
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September 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The next Elastic London #meetup is on Sept 15th. Join us for 🍕 and talks from Alam Ahmed on automating Elastic deployments with #terraform and myself covering frontend web #observability with #otel #opentelemetry and #elastic. 🎉
Register:
www.meetup.com/london-elast...
See you then!👋
Register:
www.meetup.com/london-elast...
See you then!👋
Loving the holiday views with Mr and mini R😊🏖️🩴
August 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Loving the holiday views with Mr and mini R😊🏖️🩴
I've been playing around with client instrumentation in #opentelemetry #otel for web. While experimental, it would have given useful insights for #monitoring, UI outage investigations and tracking feature usage in my prior UI engineer life.
Check out my piece 👇
www.elastic.co/observabilit...
Check out my piece 👇
www.elastic.co/observabilit...
Web Frontend Instrumentation and Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and Elastic — Elastic Observability Labs
Learn how frontend instrumentation differs to backend, and the current state of client web instrumentation in OpenTelemetry
www.elastic.co
August 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I've been playing around with client instrumentation in #opentelemetry #otel for web. While experimental, it would have given useful insights for #monitoring, UI outage investigations and tracking feature usage in my prior UI engineer life.
Check out my piece 👇
www.elastic.co/observabilit...
Check out my piece 👇
www.elastic.co/observabilit...
Theatre time with Mr and mini R ☺️🏺
July 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Theatre time with Mr and mini R ☺️🏺
If you're doing something cool with @elastic.co we have some amazing opportunities for you to share!
1. #Elastic{ON} is back in several cities across the 🗺️!
sessionize.com/elasticon-to...
2. Elastic meetups around the 🌐:
sessionize.com/elastic-meet...
Looking forward to seeing your ideas! 😀
1. #Elastic{ON} is back in several cities across the 🗺️!
sessionize.com/elasticon-to...
2. Elastic meetups around the 🌐:
sessionize.com/elastic-meet...
Looking forward to seeing your ideas! 😀
Elastic{ON} Tour 2025/2026: Call for Speakers
ElasticON is Elastic's free, one-day event series happening around the world. Submit your talks to present in:Bengaluru: September 24New York City: Oc...
sessionize.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
If you're doing something cool with @elastic.co we have some amazing opportunities for you to share!
1. #Elastic{ON} is back in several cities across the 🗺️!
sessionize.com/elasticon-to...
2. Elastic meetups around the 🌐:
sessionize.com/elastic-meet...
Looking forward to seeing your ideas! 😀
1. #Elastic{ON} is back in several cities across the 🗺️!
sessionize.com/elasticon-to...
2. Elastic meetups around the 🌐:
sessionize.com/elastic-meet...
Looking forward to seeing your ideas! 😀
Reposted by Carly Richmond
Missed @carlyrichmond.bsky.social‘s Devoxx UK talk "How to Ask Questions in 2025"? Watch it now and learn to craft effective questions, wisely use AI-generated answers, and validate solutions in developer forums. Enhance your communication skills in the AI era.
Talk @ devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=13331
Talk @ devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=13331
July 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Missed @carlyrichmond.bsky.social‘s Devoxx UK talk "How to Ask Questions in 2025"? Watch it now and learn to craft effective questions, wisely use AI-generated answers, and validate solutions in developer forums. Enhance your communication skills in the AI era.
Talk @ devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=13331
Talk @ devoxx.co.uk//talk?id=13331
Thanks to all that came to my talk at #wearedevs on machine learning classification with #tensorflowjs. I hope you didn't leave too hungry after all those 🧁images!
Code and game link are available 👇
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋
Code and game link are available 👇
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋
July 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Thanks to all that came to my talk at #wearedevs on machine learning classification with #tensorflowjs. I hope you didn't leave too hungry after all those 🧁images!
Code and game link are available 👇
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋
Code and game link are available 👇
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋
Less than 1 hour 2 go! After MC'ing AI/ML talks yesterday on stage 2 and today on stage 7, it will be my turn at 13:40 on stage 7 at #wearedevs. I'll be talking about image classification with #tensorflowjs and lots of 🧁🍰. Be sure to have your lunch 1st! 😅
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Less than 1 hour 2 go! After MC'ing AI/ML talks yesterday on stage 2 and today on stage 7, it will be my turn at 13:40 on stage 7 at #wearedevs. I'll be talking about image classification with #tensorflowjs and lots of 🧁🍰. Be sure to have your lunch 1st! 😅
Reposted by Carly Richmond
www.elastic.co/blog/journey... #elastic #elasticcloud #elasticcloudserverless #serverless #kubernetes #crossplane @elastic.co
Elastic's journey to build Elastic Cloud Serverless
Elastic Cloud Serverless is a new fully managed, stateless architecture that auto-scales no matter your data, usage, and performance needs. Find out why we built it, how we approached the architecture...
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June 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@miguelgrinberg.com raises some good honest points in his piece. I like it a lot!
It's your choice as to whether you use these tools in your coding. But given I see AI generated snippets that are incorrect in my work, I recommend you review the code yourself. You are responsible for it after all!
It's your choice as to whether you use these tools in your coding. But given I see AI generated snippets that are incorrect in my work, I recommend you review the code yourself. You are responsible for it after all!
Why Generative AI Coding Tools and Agents Do Not Work For Me blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/why-gen...
Why Generative AI Coding Tools and Agents Do Not Work For Me
People keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat…
blog.miguelgrinberg.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
@miguelgrinberg.com raises some good honest points in his piece. I like it a lot!
It's your choice as to whether you use these tools in your coding. But given I see AI generated snippets that are incorrect in my work, I recommend you review the code yourself. You are responsible for it after all!
It's your choice as to whether you use these tools in your coding. But given I see AI generated snippets that are incorrect in my work, I recommend you review the code yourself. You are responsible for it after all!
It was awesome to speak at such an amazing venue. Thank you @jnationconf.bsky.social and @danieljcafonso.bsky.social! Slides and code are available 👇
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋
May 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It was awesome to speak at such an amazing venue. Thank you @jnationconf.bsky.social and @danieljcafonso.bsky.social! Slides and code are available 👇
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋
github.com/carlyrichmon...
Until next time! 👋