Bonsai Blog

Case Study: 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

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

Dec 29, 2021

Log4J Debrief: How Bonsai Handled the Zero-Day Vulnerability

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

Dec 17, 2021

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

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 7, 2021

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

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 have to wait too long for results.

Nov 19, 2021

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 into a Ruby on Rails app is a fairly straightforward process once you’ve selected a framework.

Aug 18, 2021

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

Announcing Okta Enterprise Availability

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

Jul 22, 2021

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 Elasticsearch to OpenSearch.

Jul 12, 2021

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 12, 2021

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 local machine.

Jul 12, 2021

Case Study: Big Shards Cause Big Problems

4 Ways to Reduce Costs and Improve Performance with Elasticsearch

Log4J Debrief: How Bonsai Handled the Zero-Day Vulnerability

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

5 Principles of Search

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

Slow search engine? CPU is probably your biggest bottleneck

Comparison of Elasticsearch Ruby Gems

Releasing a Major UI Rewrite

Announcing Okta Enterprise Availability

Migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

Welcome to OpenSearch

Up and Running with OpenSearch

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