Search is one of those life-changing innovations that we started taking for granted. Companies like Google make it seem so easy to search and find whatever you are looking for in a heartbeat. However, it takes a lot of effort and thought to design and build the right search algorithm...
Lately we have been missing the Sense Chrome extension, basically because of the autocompletes when we are writing some Elasticsearch queries, or debugging something. It got blocked on Chrome due to a malware issue. In that post, they mention Kibana has a console with the same functionality that we were...
This article is an update (2017) of the How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch original article from 2015. There is also an updated version of this post (2022): How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch – 2022 edition Searching is an important part of many applications, and it...
Elasticsearch gets a lot of its power from how it works with analyzers and inverted indices. These inverted indices store your text data in a format optimized for search and allow for very fast lookups, yielding fast search results. Not understanding how these inverted indices are being used in text...
We all know them, search pages which allow you to filter through vast data sets by checking or unchecking filters. In most cases each filter is followed by a counter which indicates how many results will be shown when you apply that filter. Those counters inform the user about their...
Last week, Elasticsearch organised their first conference dedicated to the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Two days filled with sessions about search, going from in-depth Elasticsearch sessions to use-cases by users. Elasticsearch becomes Elastic Elasticsearch was also the name for the company behind the three ELK products. During the keynote...
I have already covered how you can easily integrate Elasticsearch with your app, but I haven’t talked anything about how you can query your data. I won’t cover the basics of querying or filtering here, instead I will cover a cool feature called aggregations, it’s a way...
Yo! There’s a revamped version (2022) of this article about integrating Elasticsearch with your Laravel app. Searching is an important part of many applications, and it is most of the time treated as a simple task. “Just query using LIKE and you’re good to go”. Well, while the...