Nick has 13 posts
Set yourself up for success to make real forward progress when tuning search relevancy.
March 25, 2025
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When testing for relevancy, is it best to test against the most frequently asked queries, or to choose a subset of queries that may not include t…
January 28, 2025
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Learn best practices for creating a stable and performant search deployment.
August 15, 2024
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Search is a perpetually frustrating feature. Even the standard search experience remains hard to build, hard to maintain, and hard to improve.
May 11, 2023
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Even if you have a small dataset to search, there’s always more to do than return an alphabetically sorted list. Search is a user experience puzz…
April 12, 2023
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It’s a very common intuition that more scale must mean more shards. And the ease of creating more indices and more shards means that many use cas…
March 20, 2023
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After 10 years in the industry, we’ve seen a lot of competing definitions and descriptions for the terms “managed” and “hosted.”
February 23, 2021
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Announcing a major change in the industry: Elastic is ending the open source licensing for future versions and AWS announces its forks of Elastic…
January 22, 2021
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Getting data in and out of your search cluster is superficially a straightforward process.
January 1, 2020
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Our uptime in September, as reported by external polling, was 100%.
October 2, 2014
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Many of our customers have asked for Kibana, the popular analytics package which is now officially part of Elasticsearch’s suite of tools.
September 22, 2014
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Big congratulations to the Elasticsearch team, which shipped its version 1.0 yesterday!
February 12, 2014
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One of Elasticsearch’s biggest strengths is the ease of creating many indexes. It’s just a simple HTTP POST, and you’re ready to start indexing d…
February 19, 2013
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