Sometimes you are indexing data and want to have as little to do in the input, or maybe even no influence on the input. Still you need to make changes, you want other content, or other fields. Maybe even remove
Playing with two most interesting new features of elasticsearch 1.3.0
Just a few days a go elasticsearch released version 1.3.0 of their flagship product. The first one is the most waited for feature called the Top hits aggregation. Basically this is what is called grouping. You want to group certain
Using Dropwizard in combination with Elasticsearch
How often do you start creating a new application? How often have you thought about configuring an application. Where to locate a config file, how to load the file, what format to use? Another thing you regularly do is adding
Oh no, more logs, start with logstash
How many posts have you seen about logging? And how many have your read about logging? Recently logging became cool again. Nowadays everybody talks about logstash, elasticsearch and kibana. It feels like everybody is playing with these tools. If you
Make use of the WebSocket capabilities of Tomcat
Recently I discovered the web socket capabilities of the Tomcat web container. I read a gist by chitan. This was a nice start, but not a complete solution. Some changes were made to the tomcat classes and I don’t really
Introducing a query tool for elasticsearch
In my previous blog posts I was working on reading data from wordpress blogs using groovy. This is nice, but of course there was a reason why I needed this. I wanted to create a tool or better a plugin
Doing more ElasticSearch with groovy
In my previous blog post I wrote about a groovy client for reading a wordpress blog. Than using this client I send the data to ElasticSearch to be indexed. Of course you cannot do anything with ElasticSearch if you do
Learning about ElasticSearch
This week I had a training at Trifork Amsterdam by Martijn and Uri from ElasticSearch. This training was a very nice in depth look at the capabilities of ElasticSearch. Like with all trainings and conferences I get motivated to try