Elasticsearch, the story so far

Well brought. Good insights, well prepared and great English pronunciation!

Very nice talk. Good idea to do it with two persons. Gave me excellent insights and oppertunities to improve my webshop!

An excellent deep dive into using elastic search in production by two people with an obvious wealth of experience indexing LOTS of content. Especially enjoyed the section on percolation.

To put some context into this (not interested, go to the TL;DR ^^):

For me this was a talk with mixed expectations. Some time back, I was given the task to explore the options in optimizing our search algorithm. Elasticsearch was one of the possibilities. It didn't make it at the time, because of the time it would cost I guessed it would take to implement.

I'm glad it worked out that way, after this talk :) This because I apparently really underestimated the work goes in the implementation and configuration of this "package". I had looked into it for a bit, but just the surface.

That being said (TLDR;INC;)

It was said it would be an advanced talk, so I expected I would probably recognize something, but the rest would go over my head. The opposite was true. There was a concise explanation about the main workings of elastic, that everyone with a basic knowledge of json could understand. So props for that :)

The second part was even more educational, because we were given an insight into an Elastic implementation with an insane amount of "documents", and an even more insane numer of pageviews, and the troubles this brings for this solution.

Learned a lot, motivated (again) to get it working on a small scale on my own environment, and impressed by the apparent possibilities with Elastic if you configure it right.

Regards,
AntiFTW

To put some context into this (not interested, go to the TL;DR ^^):

For me this was a talk with mixed expectations. Some time back, I was given the task to explore the options in optimizing our search algorithm. Elasticsearch was one of the possibilities. It didn't make it at the time, because of the time it would cost I guessed it would take to implement.

I'm glad it worked out that way, after this talk :) This because I apparently really underestimated the work goes in the implementation and configuration of this "package". I had looked into it for a bit, but just the surface.

That being said (TLDR;INC;)

It was said it would be an advanced talk, so I expected I would probably recognize something, but the rest would go over my head. The opposite was true. There was a concise explanation about the main workings of elastic, that everyone with a basic knowledge of json could understand. So props for that :)

The second part was even more educational, because we were given an insight into an Elastic implementation with an insane amount of "documents", and an even more insane number of pageviews, and the troubles this brings for this solution.

Learned a lot, motivated (again) to get it working on a small scale on my own environment, and impressed by the apparent possibilities with Elastic if you configure it right.

Regards,
AntiFTW

Well done presentation. Loved the dual presentation.

As to usage of ElasticSearch: I looked into using it before, but now I have understood much more of the Engine and how to use it. Thanks guys!