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Blog Post: How to really scale autocomplete

A straightforward guide to scaling an autocomplete solution in Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Jul 18, 2025

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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Rails 5 with Bonsai

Rails 5 with Bonsai

Getting started with Bonsai Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails is incredibly quick and simple to do.

Oct 17, 2016

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Rails 5 with Bonsai

Rails 5 with Bonsai

Getting started with Bonsai Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails is incredibly quick and simple to do.

Apr 15, 2016

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Introducing: Live Streaming Logs

Introducing: Live Streaming Logs

You can find the logs for your cluster under the Logs tab in your cluster dashboard.

Apr 4, 2016

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