Simple search with elastic search - Mark Story
Elastic search is a newer technology that greatly simplifies the creation of fast, highly configurable search solution. With a schema free document storage, and a lucene based search engine, built-in multi-tenancy and JSON api elasticsearch is easy to setup and use.
The talk will cover the following topics:
What is elasticsearch?
Why elasticsearch over other solutions like SOLR or sphinx.
Installation
Concepts in Elasticsearch (index, types, mappings)
Common API usage.
Searching documents.
Performing faceted searches.
Example integration with a cakephp app.