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Articles by Shay Banon

Founder and CTO, Elastic

As a founder of Elasticsearch and the CTO of Elastic, I have been fascinated with search ever since I tried to build a recipe app for my wife in 2004, a journey that led to me writing the first few lines of code of Elasticsearch in 2009 and later founding Elastic in 2012. I believe finding beauty and excelling is a combination of perspective and grit. As someone who got into computers by counting the number of job postings in the newspaper, I love building things — a product, a community, or a company — and the process of acquiring the knowledge to do so.

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Elasticsearch Is Open Source. Again!

Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open source principles and the open source community.

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Shay Banon
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Elastic and Amazon Reach Agreement on Trademark Infringement Lawsuit

We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. Now the only Elasticsearch service on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is Elastic Cloud.

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Shay Banon
Ashutosh Kulkarni
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Shay Banon to (re)assume the role of CTO, Ash Kulkarni promoted to CEO

Shay Banon Reassumes Role of Chief Technology Officer and Continues as Board Member

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Shay Banon
Ashutosh Kulkarni
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Elastic and Confluent partner to deliver an enhanced Kafka + Elasticsearch experience

Today, we are pleased to announce a partnership with Confluent to jointly develop and deliver an enhanced product experience to the Kafka-Elasticsearch community.

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Shay Banon
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Elastic + Grafana Labs partner on the official Grafana Elasticsearch plugin

We’re happy to announce that we’re partnering with Grafana Labs on the official Grafana Elasticsearch plugin, which combines the benefits of Grafana’s visualization platform with the full capabilities of Elasticsearch.

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Shay Banon
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Introducing Elastic License v2, simplified and more permissive; SSPL remains an option

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Shay Banon
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License Change Clarification

We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.

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Shay Banon
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Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing

We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.

By
Shay Banon
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Doubling down on open, Part II

Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

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Shay Banon

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