This blog post covers basic DevOps practices. If you already feel confident with DevOps you may want to read Thriving with DevOps: An Advanced Checklist.

As everybody know, Elastic releases new versions of its products fairly regularly, so some of as are are always waiting for a new version to analyse and test new features.

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.