06 February 2018 Engineering
Elasticsearch: Java 9 and Beyond!
Version 6.2 of the Elastic stack will officially support running on Java 9 or Java 8. Your choice. Supporting Java 9 has been a pretty wild ride!
05 October 2016 Engineering
Bootstrap checks: Annoying you now instead of devastating you later!
Check out the ten new bootstrap checks that are coming along with Elasticsearch 5.0 and how they will help prevent major heartache for you.
17 June 2016 Engineering
Where are my documents?
Refreshing news...
How to live and work with the asynchronous process Elasticsearch uses to make documents visible for search called "refresh".
25 March 2016 Engineering
Reindex is coming!
Reindex and update-by-query are coming to Elasticsearch!
20 February 2016 Engineering
Loading Wikipedia's Search Index For Testing
Load Wikipedia's real search index and experiment with it! These instructions have been updated for Elastic Stack 6.3.1.
21 January 2016 Engineering
Elasticsearch Queries, or Term Queries are Really Fast!
Comparing the performance of different kinds of queries in Elasticsearch.