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Tested Elasticsearch on Rails with Docker

Peter Gundel on November 02, 2018

Recently, the product team has been mentioning the need for a better search solution in our apps. That’s why I took the time to look into Elasticse...
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Kevin Østerkilde

Out of curiosity, why did you decide to go with ElasticSearch rather than Algolia's InstantSearch?

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Peter Gundel

For such a comment I would expect a disclaimer that you work at Algolia.

Elasticsearch is open source.

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Kevin Østerkilde

I'm asking out of personal interest and people can see on my profile where I work, so I didn't imagine that would be important.

Surely the fact that it's open source isn't the only reason for your decision? I'm genuinely interested.