miniblog.

I've been working on a search tool for a website with 9K items and a dumb implementation works just fine. I'd normally gravitate to a library or tool like elasticsearch (ES). Adding custom filters etc is trivial on handrolled code. I wonder what scale requires actual search infra like ES.

Blogged: Taming a Wild Elasticsearch Cluster: http://t.co/zoqPp4WuPe

Elasticsearch gets better with every release. 1.2 has been very reliable on our write-heavy cluster with big datasets (1.1 struggled).