Nick Zadrozny

Nick Zadrozny

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Winning the Relevancy Game

Winning the Relevancy Game

Set yourself up for success to make real forward progress when tuning search relevancy.

March 25, 2025

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Query Sampling for Relevancy Testing

Query Sampling for Relevancy Testing

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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Search 101: Event Queue, Streaming and Buffering Best Practices

Search 101: Event Queue, Streaming and Buffering Best Practices

Learn best practices for creating a stable and performant search deployment.

August 15, 2024

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Why improving search feels impossible and how a new architecture can get you unstuck

Why improving search feels impossible and how a new architecture can get you unstuck

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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Small Dataset, Big Results: Upgrading Search with Limited Content

Small Dataset, Big Results: Upgrading Search with Limited Content

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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How to Reduce the Number of Shards in Elasticsearch: A Shard Shrinking Guide

How to Reduce the Number of Shards in Elasticsearch: A Shard Shrinking Guide

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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Managed vs. Hosted: Setting a Standard

Managed vs. Hosted: Setting a Standard

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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Open letter to Bonsai customers

Open letter to Bonsai customers

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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Of Millies and Minutes

Of Millies and Minutes

Getting data in and out of your search cluster is superficially a straightforward process.

January 1, 2020

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Measuring Availability as an Elasticsearch Hosting Provider

Measuring Availability as an Elasticsearch Hosting Provider

Our uptime in September, as reported by external polling, was 100%.

October 2, 2014

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Announcing Kibana!

Announcing Kibana!

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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Elasticsearch 1.0 has launched!

Elasticsearch 1.0 has launched!

Big congratulations to the Elasticsearch team, which shipped its version 1.0 yesterday!

February 12, 2014

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The Case for Multi-Index Search

The Case for Multi-Index Search

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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