Building software

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.

Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale

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It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type up a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital. I don't want a capital, if I'd wanted a capital, I would have typed the capital.

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The beauty of finished software

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In a world where constant change is the norm, finished software —a software you can use forever with no unneeded change —provides a breath of fresh air. It’s a reminder that reliability, consistency, and user satisfaction can coexist in the realm of software development.

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The query speeds improve as, instead of instructing Elasticsearch to Get all the data matching... , you say Go there and get all the data matching... ( Fig 6 ). If you are querying data with multiple unique routing keys, this guarantees better or equivalent query performance as that of the default routing strategy (reducing the scatter and

Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale

Andrés

Software problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time... See more