February 24, 2021
Navigating Elasticsearch’s Licensing Change
Licensing Change Recently, Elastic.co made the announcement that they will no longer be releasing Elasticsearch…
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January 11, 2019
Building a keg scale alerting system
In a previous blog, I detailed how I used the weight of the cold brew…
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September 17, 2018
Does data center location matter for Elasticsearch?
The easy answer is, it's complicated. It depends on how you plan to use Elasticsearch.…
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August 6, 2018
Never run out of cold brewed coffee again with Elasticsearch alerts
Using Elasticsearch alerts to tell us when we’re “almost empty” (more…)
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June 8, 2018
NoSQL Databases for Personalization: Help Keep Your Customers Happy
Today’s users, customers, clients, and buyers are notoriously impatient. They demand new experiences that engage…
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May 29, 2018
Why is my Elasticsearch query slow?
One frequent Elasticsearch support request we receive is “Can you help with my response time?”…
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Add Elasticsearch-powered search and visualization to your SQL data
Despite all of the buzz focusing on newer NoSQL data stores, relational and SQL-based databases…
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April 23, 2018
Massive Growth and Market Disruption by Elastic and the Elastic Stack
I presented a webinar with 451 Research, where I talked about DBaaS and the disruption…
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March 27, 2018
Building a Mobile App? Here’s How to Make the Most of Your Database
These days, it seems like everyone and their dog has a mobile app. With good…
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February 12, 2018
Third Party Map and Tile Services with Kibana
Out of the box, Kibana includes the ability to display geo-data on maps provided by…
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January 25, 2018
More Than Just a Search Engine – Where Elasticsearch and Solr Differ
Databases aren’t easy to manage. They occupy a lot of hardware, require valuable man-hours to…
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December 21, 2017
Stuck on an Old Version of Elasticsearch? Here’s How to Upgrade
We hear it a lot. One of the most painful aspects of database maintenance are…
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