Nice prez of shay banon @kimchy, founder of @elasticsearch hosted by @ZenikaIT

Shay banon, creator and founder of elasticsearch give us a nice take at Zenika office.

Opportunity for me te review many things and confirm presentations are a complementary and to my advice a great boost for your learning curve.

talk about sharding and replication basics
how requests are routed to shards and replicas (essential to understand system performance)
use aliases on index
some usecases and common patterns to desing your system
and many good questions et the end of the talk

Shay launch some nice troll i’ve really enjoyed:

competitors ? who ? : yes, i dont know them too, he should be right
nice info on poorly implemented http client. http is ok for perf…. but implementation in ruby, python and so on….
on key value get, es is fastest than a lot of other key value search…. ;) like this one (index and proper caching power!!)

what i think

This tool is really great. When you see all possible applications (more than search ;) ) you could tend to use it as your main datastore but…

es is for search, high availability, so think about consistency….
it an index. high write cost, super fast reads. putting data in it could take a while….

I’m going to use it for a dataviz on open data. Super handy: grab jsons and push, query in realtime, have facets… and histograms !!!