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What the eMudhra intermediate certificate compromise and the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities mean for Bonsai and Websolr customers, and what we recomme…

Telling an agent to ignore your existing code still puts that code in charge. I ran 720 trials on Claude to see how much, and what works instead.

When two people shop in drastically different ways, can your catalog search satisfy them both? In this candid interview, we dive into different e…

When measuring speed and throughput for search technology, you need to test real-world scenarios.

Active Search is the new Ruby on Rails search framework from 37signals, announced at Rails World 2026. Here's how to run it on a Bonsai OpenSearc…

The Non-Engineer’s Guide to Reindexing your Search

Claude Code is closed source. The changelog is the only window we get, so I graphed 385 releases of it.

Your embeddings are float32. Somewhere in your app they get promoted to float64 and grow a tail of digits that mean nothing. You pay to store, sh…

Building Bonsai’s Query Logs feature taught me that good architecture isn’t only designed upfront. Sometimes you discover it by prototyping, benc…

Customer search query logs are now available in Bonsai Elasticsearch and OpenSearch cluster dashboards.

When Scaling Doesn't Help: How Bonsai Found and Fixed What Was Actually Wrong

A practical guide to designing a single search index for your entire database, with a working example using the Chinook music store.