Search is a component of most web sites. Therefore, it is a problem solved many times before. The solution of choice (at least in the Java sphere) is Lucene. Insert documents in an index, build queries to find the ones you want. Lucene is a library, so there are a bunch of other tools that … Read moreSite search sanity
Say there’s a program that needs to run on your Mac all the time forever and ever. This post describes how to set that up. The example here sets up the script that runs elasticsearch.* On a Mac, services are controlled by launchd, which is configured using launchctl. This example uses launchctl to set up … Read moreservices on a Mac
elasticsearch is trivially easy to set up and start using with reasonable default settings. Like any framework, deviating from those defaults increases the challenge. Phonetic searches like soundex are supported by elasticsearch, but not out-of-the-box. What is soundex? It classifies words according to how they sound, so that similar-sounding words will match each other in … Read moreconfiguring soundex in elasticsearch
elasticsearch is a wrapper around Lucene that supports distributed, scalable search, particularly compatible with Amazon’s EC2 setup. The fun part about elasticsearch is the installation and setup (on a Mac): step 1) download it.step 2) unzip that file.step 3) go to that directory and run bin/elasticsearch Done. Ready to go. Proceed with inserting data. Except! … Read moreelasticsearch: first things first
There are a zillion examples of what to type to insert into elasticsearch. But what does each part mean? Shoving information into elasticsearch is pretty easy. You don’t have to set anything up. (so, if you have a typo, good luck figuring out later where your data went. This is the price of sensible defaults.) … Read moreInserting data into elasticsearch over HTTP: a breakdown