This is the first post of what I hope will make a useful series on Elasticsearch. In this series I will share some tips and tricks I often give when working with various clients, or during courses or conference presentations.

In this post we will show-case Sense, the best Elasticsearch REST client o...

It's been almost 3 months since I last posted in this blog. It's not that I don't have what to blog about - it's the other way around, I have too many things to talk about and too little time to do so. So I thought I'll give a little sign of life!

Ever since I started freelancing (a little bit over ...

Running Elasticsearch in the cloud with Azure is fairly easy. There are several guides out there talking about how to do this, but my way of doing this is a bit different so I thought it'd be worth blogging about. I've also included discussions on some important related topics in the end.

To highlig...

Several times a year Microsoft recognizes experts in their field by awarding them with the MVP award - Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. I'm happy to be among those who received the award on July 1st, under the ASP.NET / IIS category.

It's a great honor to be recognized for your work, but I'm al...

2 days ago I gave the following talk on Elasticsearch plugins at Berlin. It gives a birds-eye view of all available extension points of Elasticsearch, and it's quite fast-paced considering I only had 40 minutes to do that.

Following is the video of the talk, and below that you will find the slides

A few days ago, while in Paris, I had a late-night beer & code with Emeric Fermas, the guardian angel of libgit2 and libgit2sharp. If you don't know those projects, look them up - it's basically a re-write of Linus's hacks also known as git.

Anyway, as Em is an extremely passionate and talented ...

RavenDB is a document-database written in C#. It's very easy to work with as a document database, and it serves as a great replacement for SQL databases and ORM's for many types of applications. But reporting and ad-hoc querying is not one of its strong suits, and this is why the official recommenda...

I have a scenario where I have a large SPA application I want to serve using a self-host solution. Basically, it's a full-blown web-application which I want to serve from a (portable) executable without requiring a web server.

NancyFX and it's self-host feature are perfect for this, only I didn't re...

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Strong naming, or assembly signing, has been the source for a lot of pain to many developers in the past few years.

Recently more and more developers are starting to raise their voice against strong-naming, and I think we as a community have the power to chang...

Many modern systems require close to 100% up time, and many of them also deal with large amounts of data. The common practice today is to do this by employing SOA methodologies to build a distributed system, read: have different software handle different roles of your system, and have each of those ...