Ben Chaplin

Ben Chaplin

Senior Software Engineer

Ben is a software engineer on the search platform team at Elastic.

Articles by Ben Chaplin
Inside ElasticVector Database

How Elasticsearch's batched query phase improves search performance at scale

The batched query phase can cut search execution time in half by reducing transport overhead and better distributing reduction work across the cluster.

Ben Chaplin
Elastic Cloud Serverless

Replica management: Inside the system that keeps Elasticsearch Serverless searches fast at scale

A technical walkthrough of how two replica systems (one for failover, one for load balancing) combine every five minutes into a single cache-aware recommendation per index in Elasticsearch Serverless.

Ben Chaplin