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…