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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

The Importance of Shard Math in Elasticsearch

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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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Of Millies and Minutes

Of Millies and Minutes

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

Jan 1, 2020

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How To Test Your Elasticsearch Integration with RSpec

How To Test Your Elasticsearch Integration with RSpec

We’ve recently kicked off a push to overhaul our documentation, and make our Quickstart Guides more useful to users.

Nov 19, 2019

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Collaborate on search at a more rapid pace with Search Clips

Collaborate on search at a more rapid pace with Search Clips

If you’ve ever tweaked Elasticsearch queries to improve search performance or relevance, you’ve likely noticed that Elasticsearch queries can be …

Sep 23, 2019

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Designing app search != designing a database

Designing app search != designing a database

Elasticsearch is a popular tool for application search.

Jul 25, 2019

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