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Search · calendar_today May 13, 2026 · schedule 4 min read

Do You Even Need Elasticsearch? Postgres FTS, Meilisearch and Typesense

The honest tour by operational weight: Postgres tsvector with trigrams, the search-box specialists with superb typo tolerance, and the real signals that justify the heavyweight cluster.

Search · calendar_today May 9, 2026 · schedule 5 min read

Elasticsearch in Production: Shards, Heap and the ILM Religion

Shard sizing between the two failure modes, the 50%/30GB heap rules and why the other half matters, master quorum and watermarks, ILM tiering for log workloads, and snapshots you have actually restored.

Search · calendar_today May 6, 2026 · schedule 4 min read

Wiring Elasticsearch into Laravel: Scout, Sync and Zero-Downtime Reindexing

Scout for the write path, raw DSL for the read path: denormalized documents, cascade updates, drift reconciliation, filter-vs-must, hydration without N+1, and the alias pattern from day one.

Search · calendar_today May 3, 2026 · schedule 4 min read

Elasticsearch from the Inverted Index Up

The three machines under the API: inverted indexes (why search is fast and updates are weird), analyzers with a Turkish-aware example, permanent mappings, and BM25 relevance in one honest paragraph.