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Welcome to the Elastic Advent Calendar! Looking back on Week One

This year, the Elastic Engineering team wanted to do something special to celebrate the end of the 2017 Calendar year. Drawing heavy inspiration from the Elastic Stack calendar on Qiita (fully in Japanese) and SysAdvent (in English), we've decided to join the tech-advent tradition.

From the 1st through 25th of December the team is publishing a series of Elastic Stack tips each day at 00:00 UTC. And —as we are a distributed organization with community members from all corners of the globe— you'll be seeing these threads in a variety of our native languages. Just this week we have contributions in English, Japanese, French, and Korean!

If you want to be actively notified of new topics, subscribe to the discuss category! We’ll also be posting weekly summary blog posts (like this one) if you prefer to follow along here, and we encourage you to join in the conversation either way; topics are open for feedback and questions and we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s what we’ve posted from our first week

  1. [EN] [Elastic Stack] Upgrading to 6.0.0! by Mark Walkom

The first and best recommendation we have is to upgrade to the latest 5.6.X release, which is 5.6.4 as of writing. Once you are on 5.6.X, you can do rolling upgrades to 6.X, which is just as amazing as it sounds. 

  1. [JP][Elasticsearch] Elasticsearch Ingest Plugin by Jun Ohtani Ingest Nodeの機能は5で追加されました。Elasticsearchにデータを送信し、インデックスに登録する前処理として、色々な処理が可能です。例えば、Grok pluginを利用すれば、正規表現を利用して文字列を構造化したりできます。また、GeoIP pluginを利用すれば、IPアドレスを元に、緯度経度などの地理情報を追加するといったことも前処理で可能です。
  2. [EN][Elastic Stack] Fighting Fires and Intrinsic Exploration—Getting Started with the Elastic Stack by Tyler Hannan

Often, if learning is driven by trying to solve a specific problem, the joy of exploration is lost in the need to put out the fire. Alternatively, if learning the new tech is driven by intrinsic interest without a focused goal, the process never feels satisfactorily "done." We felt these pains, and examined how people were successfully learning new tech. 3. [FR][Elasticsearch] Advanced Rest Java Client by David Pilato

Aujourd'hui, nous allons vous montrer en quelques lignes comment utiliser le client Java REST d'Elasticsearch. 4. [EN][Elasticsearch] Using Painless to prepare for the Holiday Season Deals by Tal Levy

Let's build a toy search engine for this holiday season. 5. [KR][Elasticsearch] Cross Cluster Search로 할 수 있는 것들 by Jongmin Kim

Cross Cluster Search 는 여러 클러스터의 상태를 직접 관리하지 않고 원격 클러스터 데이터를 검색하는 기능만을 제공하기 때문에 쉽고 안전하게 사용이 가능합니다. 6. [EN][Elasticsearch] Holiday Proof Your Cluster by Christopher Wurm

Before you take off for your well-deserved holidays, here are some tips on how to avoid being rudely pulled back by a pager alert.

It’s a great collection of content packed into some mighty small space, and we'd love to hear your feedback on the posts. Happy reading!