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Elasticsearch is not just for search

Joe Zack on April 26, 2019

Elasticsearch is often described as an open-source, scalable, full-text search and analytics engine. This is true, but this sentence doesn’t really...
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Wyatt Lee Chastain

I need to write a post about my love for Elasticsearch and custom queries. On one project, our data pipeline wasn't performing as expected and it was logging each step to Elasticsearch and flexible queries that led me to realize that each step in the pipeline was working exactly as expected; it was that the amount of resources devoted to each step of the pipeline that was off (we were using Apache Storm and the parallelism devoted to certain areas was slightly off, creating a cascading effect).

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Joe Zack

I would love to read that post!

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Preet Parekh

Hey do you have any quick start quides for elastic search, I'm trying to figure out how to implement bfull text search with firebase

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Joe Zack

Heya, I just took a stab at writing a quick start guide that will get everything setup in Docker, and import some dev.to data so you can experiment!

dev.to/_codingblocks/quickstart-gu...

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Preet Parekh

Thanks I'll check it out

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Joe Zack

Not yet, but now I want to try and write one :)

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madhankumar

Very useful thank you.

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Evaldas Buinauskas

I would argue that 4th is not really Elasticsearch but rather Kibana and X-Pack doing all of it, nonetheless it wouldn't work without ES. Great post! :)

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Joe Zack

Great point, I'll add a little note in there. Thanks!

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KP

@_codingblocks thanks for the post. Is there a beginners' guide to getting started with elastic search with a MySQL database? My backend is in Laravel.