Andrés
@andalm
Let the technical be tangible, free of any mystical aura ✨
Andrés
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switching cost (aka "lock-in"): how difficult will be for us to move to another solution?
unique utility: how much are we gaining from the solution compared to alternatives?
Tools for agents and AI
- The number of partitions is fixed at the time of the index creation. Each partition is an indivisible chunk of data which can grow in size but not be split into smaller chunks. As the data grows, more nodes may be added to the cluster, but the number of partitions which eventually move to the newer nodes are limited (Fig 3)
- In some sense, as the
Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale
In Elasticsearch, these partitions are known as shards . Each node of the Elasticsearch cluster can serve queries independently for the partition it manages, thereby increasing query throughput.