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1. 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

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Kai Krause on how short-lived software is relative to other art forms: You can hum a tune you once liked, years later. You can read words or look a painting from 300 years ago and still appreciate its truth and beauty today, as if brand new. Software, by that comparison, is more like Soufflé: enjoy it now, today, for... See more

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.

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