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Articles by Zachary Tong

Software Engineer, Elastic

Officially trained as a molecular neurobiologist, Zachary has thrown off the shackles of pipettes and petri dishes to return to his original passion: building software. Zach is a developer for Elasticsearch, fondly remembers v0.18, and co-authored Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide.

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This Week in Elasticsearch - 2020-02-21

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A Profile a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: The Elasticsearch Search Profiler

Back in the dark ages of Elasticsearch, understanding why a query was slow required experience, intuition, reading some tea leaves and making sure the moon was

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Implementing a Statistical Anomaly Detector in Elasticsearch - Part 3

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Implementing a statistical anomaly detector in Elasticsearch - Part 2

In part 2 of this series on building a statistical anomaly detector, we graph the output in Timelion, a Kibana app for graphing time-series data.

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Implementing a Statistical Anomaly Detector in Elasticsearch - Part 1

In this series, we implement a statistical anomaly detector to detect when correlated changes in variance occur, providing forewarning of a disruption.

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Staying in Control with Moving Averages - Part 2

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Staying in Control with Moving Averages - Part 1

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Intro to Aggregations pt. 2: Sub-Aggregations

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Intro to Aggregations