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Risky Operations in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch.
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Blog Post: Risky Operations in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch.

When operating large search clusters with heavy traffic, there are certain risky operations you should avoid. In this post, we present a comprehensive list of these operations to raise awarness and help you avoid footguns.

Oct 1, 2025

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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Bonsai now supports Elasticsearch 7.2

Bonsai now supports Elasticsearch 7.2

After various tests by our team, Elasticsearch 7.2 is now available on Bonsai.

Jul 15, 2019

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Deploy Bonsai in your own AWS account with Bonsai Vaults

Deploy Bonsai in your own AWS account with Bonsai Vaults

Countless blog posts and Hacker News threads have asked a simple question: Heroku or AWS?

Apr 29, 2019

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Increase Website Profits Using Elasticsearch Boost

Increase Website Profits Using Elasticsearch Boost

Black Friday is coming up soon, and a lot of eCommerce companies are doing everything they can to prepare.

Nov 1, 2018

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How We Built & Designed Operational Metrics

How We Built & Designed Operational Metrics

The newest feature to join the dashboard family is the one we’ve been most excited about: announcing Bonsai’s Elasticsearch operations metrics, a…

Jan 2, 2018

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Bonsai Unaffected by Recent Ransomware Attack

Bonsai Unaffected by Recent Ransomware Attack

How Bonsai's built-in security architecture kept customer data safe when ransomware attackers hit tens of thousands of unsecured MongoDB and Elas…

Jan 17, 2017

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