In Information Technology Housekeeping refers to standard routines whereby a computer system is cleaned up after usage (e.g. freeing resources such as disk space). This housekeeping might include such activities as removing or archiving logs that the system has made as a result of the user's activities, or deletion of temporary files which may otherwise take up space.

In this post I tell you about the experience of participating in a Design Sprint, and how Ecoembes used the Design Sprint methodology to explore new ideas in the context of circular economy and recycling. In order to do that, they recruited through scholarships an eclectic group of professionals who, with the help of UXER School, applied Design Sprint to the world of recycling. In just 5 days we were able to propose and develop innovative ideas that solve problems, for a business that we initially did not know about.

Full-text search is one of Elasticsearch's strengths. However, what if we wanted to find similar documents based on something more abstract - like the meaning of a word or the style of writing? This is where Elasticsearch's dense vector field datatype and script-score queries for vector fields come into play.

In our previous articles, we introduce the techniques to create a suggestion for typeahead searches. In this article, we do an example of how to utilise it in public transportation. In Switzerland, Public Transportation is extraordinary. It is prevalent, the service and overall reliability are extraordinary. With public transportation in Switzerland, you can nearly arrive at any destination in Switzerland comfortably.

In the previous articles, we look into Prefix Queries and Edge NGram Tokenizer to generate search-as-you-type suggestions. Suggesters are an advanced solution in Elasticsearch to return similar looking terms based on your text input. Movie, song or job titles have a widely known or popular order. In this article, we are going to complete with a hands-on example.