#Elasticsearch Articles

Search May 9, 2026 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 May 6, 2026 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 May 3, 2026 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.