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Making sense of unstructured documents: Using Reducto parsing with Elasticsearch

Demonstrating how Reducto's document processing can be integrated with Elasticsearch for semantic search.

Adel Wu

Elasticsearch in JavaScript the proper way, part II

Learn about production best practices and how to run the Elasticsearch Node.js client in Serverless environments to reduce coding errors.

Jeffrey Rengifo

How to optimize Elasticsearch disk space and usage

Learn how to prevent and handle cases when the Elasticsearch disk is too full (overutilization) and when the disk capacity is underutilized to optimize cluster costs.

Kofi Bartlett

Elasticsearch in JavaScript the proper way, part I

Explaining how to create a production-ready Elasticsearch backend in JavaScript. Explore how to use Elasticsearch with JavaScript to create a server with different search endpoints to query Elasticsearch documents following client/server best practices.

Jeffrey Rengifo

How to configure the number of replicas in an Elasticsearch index

Learn how to configure the number_of_replicas in an Elasticsearch index to improve search performance and provide resilience to node failure.

Kofi Bartlett

Deleting a field from a document in Elasticsearch

Learn how to delete fields from Elasticsearch documents using the Update API, scripts, or reindexing for single and bulk removals.

Kofi Bartlett

How to join two indices in Elasticsearch

Explaining how to use the terms query, Logstash elasticsearch filter, the enrich processor and ES|QL for joining two indices in Elasticsearch.

Carly Richmond

Understanding Elasticsearch scoring and the Explain API

Learn about Elasticsearch scoring mechanisms and the practical scoring function to audit search relevance and improve document ranking with the Explain API.

Kofi Bartlett

Elasticsearch search by two fields

Explore techniques for searching by two fields, including multi-match queries, bool queries, and query-time field boosting.

Kofi Bartlett

How to implement Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) into your use case

Explore why you would implement Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) in your use case and how to do it.

Sachin Frayne

Elasticsearch heap size usage and JVM garbage collection

Exploring Elasticsearch heap size usage and JVM garbage collection, including best practices and how to resolve issues when heap memory usage is too high or when JVM performance is not optimal.

Kofi Bartlett

How to increase primary shard count in Elasticsearch

Learn how to increase primary shard count in Elasticsearch using the split and reindex APIs for optimal shard scaling.

Kofi Bartlett

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