Carly Richmond

​Observability AI Agents – Behind the Scenes | Elastic and PagerDuty, Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 5:45 PM | Meetup Join us for a meetup during the week of [KubeCon Amsterdam](https://www.elastic.co/events/kube-con), hosted together with PagerDuty. **Agenda**: 17:45 Doors open, Walk-in

Looking forward to #kubeconeu in a couple of weeks. Chat with me at the @elastic.co booth, or at these events:

@elastic.co and PagerDuty meetup: www.meetup.com/elastic-nl/e...

OOPS! Happy Hour with Uptime Labs, @elastic.co and PagerDuty: luma.com/3hm471q5

Hope to see you there!

What tools are people using for debugging Grok expressions? I used to default to tools such as regex101.com. But this week I've been quite impressed with generating expressions using the AI generated pattern feature in @elastic.co Streams, or even Cursor CLI.

Coding at home with the wee one as well as at work ☺️. Does anyone recognise this game?

#developer #devlife

To my #DevRel friends in the Netherlands, we're currently looking for an Advocate based in Amsterdam to join the @elastic.co team. If you have a passion for the developer community, events and writing code do consider applying!

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It's Elastic{ON} day! If you're around and have questions come say hi at the AMA booth!

#elasticsearch #ama

Agents & APIs London Developer Meetup · Luma Supercharge your dev game at the Agents and APIs Developer Meetup brought to you by Postman. Do you: Need to put your AI agents into production? Create APIs…

The Agents and APIs meetup is this week! Join me on 12th Feb alongside speakers from Postman and Snyk to learn about #ai agent production practices such as #testing, #observability (by yours truly) and #security:

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See you then 👋 !

GitHub - carlyrichmond/context-engineering-ai-agent: Example Travel Planner AI Agent showcasing Context Engineering best practices, built using AI SDK by Vercel Example Travel Planner AI Agent showcasing Context Engineering best practices, built using AI SDK by Vercel - carlyrichmond/context-engineering-ai-agent

Thanks to all that came to my talk at @ndcconferences.com London on #contextengineering 🧠 . Slides and example code are all available 👇:

github.com/carlyrichmon...

Until next time! 👋

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How much do you know about agentic memory and the role it plays in #contextengineering 🧠 ? If this is new to you join me at AI Coding Summit in February to find out!

Register with my badge 👇 :

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See you there! 👋

Agents & APIs London Developer Meetup · Luma Supercharge your dev game at the Agents and APIs Developer Meetup brought to you by Postman. Do you: Need to put your AI agents into production? Create APIs…

I'm looking forward to speaking at the Agents and APIs meetup on 12th Feb alongside speakers from Postman and Synk. If you're interested in agent production practices such as testing, observability and security do register to come along:

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See you then 👋 !

It's not just a case of swapping out one LLM with another in your agent and keeping everything else the same. Testing and validation when you change models, is important. See my example trying function gemma in place of gpt-4o 😅 . Can you guess which is which?

If you are still hesitant to apply, we would love to hear why as we're looking for topics for sessions for the upcoming few months for the Aspiring Speakers group. So do reply in thread with what is holding you back! 💜

📣 Attention all Aspiring Speakers!

Applications are still open for the Devoxx UK Aspiring Speakers slot, taking place in London in May. It's an opportunity to take to the stage for a short talk. Mentorship is provided.

Submit your talk ideas 👉 : forms.gle/eQWm57hvX2Jf...

The new year is off to a great start as I can confirm I'll be speaking at @agilemanc.bsky.social in May about #opentelemetry for #monitoring and user experience evaluation!

Schedule: agilemanchester.net/programme-2026

For 10% off tickets use my code 10Carly.

See you then! 👋

Significant Terms and GenAI Games with Elastic and Microsoft, Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup Join us **the night before Elastic{ON} London** for an exclusive meetup, a perfect warm-up to the big day ahead! This is your chance to connect with the Elastic community,

I'm looking forward to the next Elastic London meetup on Wed Feb 25th ahead of Elastic{ON} London. We'll have talks from Mark Harwood on significant terms and Microsoft on building #genai games with Microsoft and #elasticsearch.

Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast...

See you there!

GitHub - carlyrichmond/observing-ai-agents: Example TS AI SDK Agent instrumented with OpenLit and OpenTelemetry Example TS AI SDK Agent instrumented with OpenLit and OpenTelemetry - carlyrichmond/observing-ai-agents

2025 was definitely an AI learning year for me. I enjoyed building my first #typescript agent leveraging #elasticsearch and context engineering, and observing another with @elastic.co and OpenLit 🎉

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If you missed my talk on lexical, vector and hybrid search (😱) at the wonderful @gotocon.com in Copenhagen earlier this year, it's now available to watch. If you want to understand how search and AI fit together the answers are in here. Enjoy!

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/...

JavaScript | JavaScript This is the official Node.js client for Elasticsearch. This page gives a quick overview about the features of the client. One-to-one mapping with REST...

You can parameterize search queries (although I had the full text in my #elasticsearch query). For example in a web app you would take the user input from a text box and pass it via the JS Language client:

www.elastic.co/docs/referen...

Hope that helps!

JavaScript | JavaScript This is the official Node.js client for Elasticsearch. This page gives a quick overview about the features of the client. One-to-one mapping with REST...

There are occasions where case sensitivity is important (i.e. tag categories). There are situations where you may not want to configure synonyms. It depends on your query and data.

Thanks @mapgie.co.uk! I'm glad you enjoyed the talk. Part of the complexity of the search is how humans search for results. When you apply sensible defaults based on your data lexical search can give you good results where semantics are not a problem.

In this example I'm hosting Gemma 3 using Ollama on my laptop to try and control the demo gremlins 😅. But I'll share the other options as well.

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 🖥️ !

#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 🎫 (😱):

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See you there! 👋

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

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! 👋

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:

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Hope to 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…

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 👇

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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

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!

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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 👇

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