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Last updated on Jan 15, 2018 In this post, we are going to show you how to secure Elasticsearch by sharing a few simple and free prevention methods.

One way to create a better search experience is to understand the user intent.  One of the phases in that process is query understanding, and one simple step in that direction is query segmentation. In this post, we’ll cover what query segmentation […]

Last updated on Jan 9, 2018 Nowadays there are more and more organizations searching for fault-tolerant and highly available solutions for various parts of their infrastructure, including search, which evolved from merely a “nice to have” feature to the first class citizen and […]

Running Elasticsearch in Docker containers sounds like a natural fit – both technologies promise elasticity. However, running a truly elastic Elasticsearch cluster on Docker Swarm became somewhat difficult with Docker 1.12 in Swarm mode. Why? Since Elasticsearch gave up on […]

Docker is all the rage these days, but one doesn’t hear about running Solr on Docker very much. Last month, we gave a talk on the topic of running containerized Solr at the Lucene Revolution conference in Boston, the biggest […]

Last updated: 26 January, 2018 Many of our clients use AWS EC2. In the context of Elasticsearch consulting or support, one question we often get is: should we use AWS Elasticsearch Service instead of deploying Elasticsearch ourselves? The question is valid whether “self […]

Last updated on Jan 10, 2018 One of the things you learn when attending Sematext Solr training is how to scale Solr. We discuss various topics regarding leader shards and their replicas – things like when to go for more […]

As the world of software is growing, so is the ecosystem of DevOps tools and resources – for monitoring, for logging, for alerting, for continuous integration and deployment, configuration management, etc.  Nothing wrong with having lots of resources and tools, but here at […]

If you are running Elasticsearch in Docker, you may have flipped through our Running High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker slide deck.  Here is the video of the Running High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker talk given at Berlin […]