Welcome
Thanks for purchasing the MEAP for Elasticsearch in Action. We're excited to see the book
reach this stage and we're looking forward to its continued development and eventual
release. This is an intermediate level book designed for anyone writing applications using, or
responsible for managing Elasticsearch in a production environment.
We've striven to make the content both approachable and meaningful, and to explain not
just how to do things with Elasticsearch, but also why things are done the way they are. We
feel it is important to know Elasticsearch's foundations prior to diving into all of the different
ways you can leverage it.
We're releasing the first three chapters to start. Chapter 1 explains what Elasticsearch is:
what a typical use-case looks like, the tasks it's good at, and the challenges it faces. By the
end of chapter one, you'll know if Elasticsearch is likely to be a good fit for you and what you
can expect from it. You will also learn various ways to install it.
Chapter 2 is about getting your hands dirty with Elasticsearch's functionality. You will
understand how data is organized, both logically and physically. By the end, you'll know how
to index and search for documents, as well as how to configure Elasticsearch.
Chapter 3 talks about scaling horizontally. Elasticsearch is, as the name suggests, elastic,
so spreading to more machines or shrinking to less is what it does best. This is where you'll
learn about this fundamental feature.
Looking ahead, in part 2, we'll cover Elasticsearch's core functionality when it comes to
dealing with data: indexing, searching, analysis, and faceting. In part 3, we'll cover the
advanced functionality that will let you take your search application to the next level, such as
geo-spatial searches and relationships between documents.
Finally, part 4 is all about making Elasticsearch perform to your production standards.
We'll talk about tuning indexing and search performance, as well as administering your
cluster.
As you're reading, we hope you’ll take advantage of the Author Online forum. We’ll be
reading your comments and responding. We appreciate any feedback, as it is very helpful in
the development process.
Thanks again!
Matthew Lee Hinman and Radu Gheorghe
©Manning Publications Co. We welcome reader comments about anything in the manuscript - other than typos and
other simple mistakes. These will be cleaned up during production of the book by copyeditors and proofreaders.
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