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Your search index is already an agent memory system: Persistent agent memory for Claude Code with Elasticsearch

Give your AI agent persistent cross-session memory using Elasticsearch: Hybrid recall, a knowledge graph, and cross-device handoffs. Three commands to install.

Jeff Vestal

How DocValuesSkippers in Lucene 10 make range queries faster without doubling your storage

DocValuesSkippers add block-level skipping to Lucene DocValues fields, speeding up range queries on sorted or insert-ordered indexes with less than 0.1% storage overhead.

Alan Woodward

Systematic research with LangChain's Deep Agents framework and Elasticsearch

Building a systematic research pipeline using LangChain's Deep Agents framework and Elasticsearch:

Jeffrey Rengifo

How Elasticsearch cut metrics storage by 41% by dropping sequence numbers after replication

Find out how Elasticsearch trims sequence numbers at merge time to cut TSDS storage by 41%, what you give up, and why it's safe for metrics workloads.

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

Your AI agent reads the fine print: building a RAG pipeline over EU regulations with Elasticsearch and OGX

Learn how to configure Elasticsearch as an OGX vector store, ingest EU regulation PDFs and build a Python RAG agent that runs hybrid BM25 and vector search with source-level citations.

Enrico Zimuel

Best practices for building a modern app with vector search

Exploring six vector search tips for building modern AI search applications entirely on Elasticsearch, with an opinionated rationale at each architectural decision.

Jeffrey Rengifo

Elasticsearch simdvec deep-dive: Walking the memory tightrope to 2x better vector throughput

A deep dive into four optimizations (cascade unrolling, batch prefetching, dim-axis unrolling, a structural refactor) that pushed Elasticsearch simdvec to 2x vector throughput by working with the CPU, not against it.

Lorenzo Dematte

Your Elastic agent, Google's ADK, and zero custom APIs: building “Lucky Planet” over A2A

Elastic Agent Builder's native A2A endpoint lets Google's ADK orchestrate a remote agent, with no custom REST API. Watch it work in 'Lucky Planet,' a random-exoplanet game built end-to-end.

Jonathan Simon

137,000 people, zero human decisions: agentic disaster response with Elasticsearch

Find out how a Kibana detection rule, a workflow and an AI agent automatically relocated 137,000 military personnel across seven installations when a hurricane hit, no dispatcher required.

Alec Carpenter

6 resources, 1 command: fully automated Elastic anomaly detection with Terraform

Build and manage Elastic anomaly detection jobs entirely in Terraform (job config, datafeed, lifecycle state and environment promotion) with a modular, ready-to-clone example.

Ed Savage

Elasticsearch reindex now relocates across nodes automatically: zero user intervention, no lost progress

Elasticsearch reindex now survives node shutdowns, uses Point in Time for more efficient source iteration, and ships with dedicated management APIs. Reindex-from-remote is GA in Serverless.

Pete Naylor

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