Category: Basics
Articles tagged Basics

Making sense of unstructured documents: Using Reducto parsing with Elasticsearch
Demonstrating how Reducto's document processing can be integrated with Elasticsearch for semantic search.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.
