Drew Tate

Drew Tate

Kibana - Senior Software Engineer

Drew Tate is a software engineer at Elastic focused on the intersection of human-computer interaction and language tooling. He brings a background in frontend architecture, developer experience, and software for analysts. He’s passionate about building fast, intuitive systems that empower both users and developers.

Articles by Drew Tate

How we rebuilt autocomplete for ES|QL

Discover how we rearchitected an autocomplete engine for ES|QL to support language evolution instead of resisting it.

Drew Tate

Kibana cuts dashboard load time by up to 25% - here's the polling strategy behind it

Find out how Kibana uses continuous polling and browser-side HTTP/2 detection to cut dashboard load times by up to 25%, with automatic fallback on HTTP/1.

Drew Tate

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