The best choice between Vespa and Elasticsearch depends on your specific use case and requirements. Vespa is a big data processing and serving engine that can handle large scale search and recommendations. …

Elasticsearch is a distributed, highly scalable open-source search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene. It’s designed to handle large amounts of data and provide near real-time search and analysis capabilities. How Elasticsearch works internally? Data Storage Elasticsearch organizes data into a cluster, which consists of one or more nodes, operating in a distributed…

In the world of cybersecurity, social engineering attacks have become one of the most prevalent and dangerous types of attacks. Social engineering is the use of psychological tactics to trick people into revealing sensitive information or performing actions that can compromise their security. …

What is “Long-Tail”? The “long tail” in search refers to the large number of queries or search terms that receive a relatively small number of searches individually, but when aggregated, they make up a significant portion of all searches. For example, imagine an ecommerce platform using a search engine with 10 million different…

There are in the market some alternatives to Elasticsearch that can be a good fit depending on the use case. Let’s look at some options together with example use cases and differences. Apache Solr Apache Solr is open-source, highly scalable full-text search and analytics engine. It has a large community of users…

In the last post I explain how we can put elasticsearch running with custom synonyms, configs and plugins on docker. Now, let’s see what are the types we can use to define a data model in Elasticsearch. We don’t need to define our data model in detail if we don’t…

We have available online a lot of snippets that we can use if we want to start a container with Elasticsearch with base configuration in our computer. But if we want a Elasticsearch with synonyms files and custom configuration? Can be a little more difficult to find a snippet with…

I was working as a Senior Engineer on an e-commerce related project with a team of 10 people and the CTO of the project asked me if I would accept a promotion to Head of Development and showed me the challenges I would face in the short/medium term. Why me…