
Blog Post: How to really scale autocomplete
A straightforward guide to scaling an autocomplete solution in Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
Jul 18, 2025

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
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
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
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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The Importance of Shard Math in Elasticsearch
As Customer Success Engineers for Bonsai, we often interface with people experiencing problems with their cluster.
May 3, 2021
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Pathological Regular Expressions in Elasticsearch
In the past week, we had the opportunity to help a customer diagnose a fairly convoluted issue that led to increasingly stale results.
Apr 22, 2021
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Why Elasticsearch should not be your Primary Data Store
During day-to-day conversations with customers, we often encounter people that either want to use Elasticsearch as their primary data store or th…
Mar 4, 2021
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Free Clusters are Getting an Upgrade!
Ever since the day Bonsai launched the world’s first Elasticsearch-as-a-Service cluster on demand, we always maintained a free tier of service.
Mar 2, 2021
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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.”
Feb 23, 2021
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What I've Learned About Remote Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Remote work has long-been a controversial subject in the business world due to the conventional view that people are more productive in an office…
Feb 1, 2021
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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…
Jan 22, 2021
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Listening to your users
Does your application have a search bar? Are you recording what your users are searching for?
Nov 18, 2020
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