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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.

We introduce agentic tool-based retreival models, and show how they are shaping the future of search quality.

Securely bring your Bonsai managed Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters to your Render.com deployments

When you run search on Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, your data doesn’t just live in one place on one server. It lives in a cluster, or a group of …