A week has gone by now since Haystack 2024 EU took place in Berlin. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend in person, but as the organizers made it available to join the sessions remotely, I happily marked the days in the calendar, eager to listen about the latest innovations in information retrieval and case studies from fellow search engineers. Read on for a quick summary of conference.

We're looking back on an exciting and insightful JavaLand 2024! My colleague Boris Fresow and I had the pleasure of leading an introductory workshop on Apache Kafka for Java Developers. To share our knowledge further, we are now making the materials from our 1-day workshop available to all interested parties.