A few weeks ago I gave a talk on Google Campus TLV on deploying and running Elasticsearch on Kubernetes - best practices and various gotchas. The video for the talk is below.

There is also a blog post with most of the technical details here.

On that note, you should definitely check out Elastic's re...

That thing that happens when your company is scaling so fast you have to replace your infrastructure within weeks or the whole thing crashes. This is what happened to our customer, and this is the story of how we replaced good-ol' SQL with streams and batch processing technologies on AWS.

Using Terr...

My talk on Elasticsearch tips and tricks, including a discussion on cluster security, is now online:

After several years of working with Elasticsearch and consulting many clients world-wide, it's time to share some trade secrets and lessons learned. Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine se...

I've got a few training courses - hand-on worshops rather - on Elasticsearch and the ELK stack coming up, so I thought it'd be a good idea to blog about them and spread the word out.

Interested in a training near you or in your company? feel free to reach out, or check my Elasticsearch consultancy s...

A talk I gave recently about our real-time system monitoring facilities at Forter is now available to watch online. The talk description and video are both below.

How to keep a real-time, low-latency and high-stakes system up and running and well-monitored? how to investigate failure cases as they h...

The talk I given recently at JavaZone about the Hadoop eco-system, titled "A guided tour of the BigData technologies zoo", is now available on video.

I posted it here along with the original talk abstract. Enjoy!

A high level overview of the BigData technologies, and their current state. ...

In June I gave the following talk at NDC Oslo.

Lucene and Elasticsearch are state of the art open-source products which power many search services around the world, including GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter and many many others. But enabling efficient searches to yield relevant results is not an easy tas...

Slides for my recent talk at CodeMash titled "ElasticSearch – Distributed search and analytics on BigData made easy" are below.

Elasticsearch is a cloud-ready, super scalable search engine which is gaining a lot of popularity lately. It is mostly known for being extremely easy to setup an...

2014 hasn't even started yet, and I already have a full schedule for the next couple of months. Here is a list of talks and courses I'm doing publicly, on RavenDB and search technologies (Lucene and Elasticsearch). I will update this list as new events come in.

1. December 30th, Tel-Aviv: the Inaugura...

Last week I spoke at Oredev, an awesome conference in cold Sweden. It was fun meeting all those great people, and the atmosphere was really great.

My first talk was an introductory level one on Elasticsearch - what it is, how it can be used and what it can do. I really like this shiny piece of techn...