As mentioned late last year, I gave a talk at SREcon Americas 2025 on some of the work that we did at Figma on improving OpenSearch speed. Usenix has now made the recording of the talk available on Youtube: This was actually my first conference talk ever. It went better than I’d feared, but I finished 10 minutes faster than I had on any of my test runs. No, you didn’t accidentally set the video to play back at 1.5x speed; I actually presented it at 1.5x speed. Also, for the record, the au...
