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Blog Post: Big Shards Cause Big Problems

Learn the technical details around how to identify a potential shard performance issue, and how to create a solid sharding strategy.

Dec 18, 2024

4 Ways to Reduce Costs and Improve Performance with Elasticsearch

4 Ways to Reduce Costs and Improve Performance with Elasticsearch

What can your team do to get better performance out of Elasticsearch, while at the same time reducing costs?

Dec 29, 2021

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Log4J Debrief: How Bonsai Handled the Zero-Day Vulnerability

Log4J Debrief: How Bonsai Handled the Zero-Day Vulnerability

Developers worldwide worked through the weekend to defend against the Log4J vulnerability.

Dec 17, 2021

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One Word to Help You Build a More Scalable Search Engine: Precomputation

One Word to Help You Build a More Scalable Search Engine: Precomputation

The most efficient way to create anything complex is to begin with the first principles.

Dec 7, 2021

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5 Principles of Search

5 Principles of Search

Want to find a needle in a haystack? Just drop the haystack into a search engine, type “needle” into the query box, and click Search.

Dec 6, 2021

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Want to build a powerful search engine? Start with the user experience

Want to build a powerful search engine? Start with the user experience

Just a few years ago, user experience in design was seen as an afterthought.

Nov 23, 2021

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Slow search engine? CPU is probably your biggest bottleneck

Slow search engine? CPU is probably your biggest bottleneck

Your website visitors don’t have much patience for slow load speeds. Most users will leave if they type something into your search engine and hav…

Nov 19, 2021

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Comparison of Elasticsearch Ruby Gems

Comparison of Elasticsearch Ruby Gems

If you’ve ever wanted to supercharge your app’s search capabilities, there’s no better tool to use than Elasticsearch. Integrating Elasticsearch …

Aug 18, 2021

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Releasing a Major UI Rewrite

Releasing a Major UI Rewrite

Last year we rolled out a new version of our product UI. It is the official fourth large-scale UI redesign we’ve rolled out with Bonsai.

Jul 27, 2021

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Announcing Okta Enterprise Availability

Announcing Okta Enterprise Availability

Bonsai has long supported single sign-on (SSO) using Google as an Identity Provider.

Jul 21, 2021

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Migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

Migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

This post is the third installment of our series on OpenSearch. In this post, we’re going to explore some different ways of migrating data from E…

Jul 12, 2021

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Up and Running with OpenSearch

Up and Running with OpenSearch

This is the second post in our OpenSearch series. In this post, we’ll discuss how to set up an OpenSearch cluster on Bonsai, as well as on your l…

Jul 11, 2021

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Welcome to OpenSearch

Welcome to OpenSearch

Bonsai has officially rolled out support for OpenSearch 1.0.0! Users can now choose between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch when creating a cluster.…

Jul 10, 2021

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