Elasticsearch Search API and Query DSL In Practice

A Complete Guide to Elasticsearch Query DSL, Search API, Optimization & Tune-up

This course will guide you how to properly and effectively use Elasticsearch Query DSL (Domain Specific Language) based on JSON to define queries. Additionally I present most commonly used Search APIs that will help you fully understand how Elasticsearch works and how to use it to build modern search applications, like Google, Bing, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo etc. Course contains a lot of practical knowledge, examples and hands-on lectures.

What you’ll learn

  • Elasticsearch Query DSL & Search API best practices.
  • Distributed search architecture & basic terms.
  • How to tune-up and analyze queries.
  • How to customize routing and scoring.
  • How to do highlighting, suggestions, spell corrections.
  • How to design effective notifications with Percolate Query.
  • How to analyze and aggregate data using aggregations.
  • How to use query templates.

Course Content

  • About this Course and Author –> 1 lecture • 1min.
  • Code & Slides Download –> 1 lecture • 1min.
  • Prerequisites –> 3 lectures • 14min.
  • Search in Elasticsearch cluster –> 2 lectures • 18min.
  • Query DSL –> 17 lectures • 3hr 21min.
  • Aggregations –> 4 lectures • 57min.
  • Search API special features –> 5 lectures • 1hr 15min.
  • Tuning & Optimizations –> 7 lectures • 1hr 27min.
  • Congratulations –> 1 lecture • 1min.

Elasticsearch Search API and Query DSL In Practice

Requirements

This course will guide you how to properly and effectively use Elasticsearch Query DSL (Domain Specific Language) based on JSON to define queries. Additionally I present most commonly used Search APIs that will help you fully understand how Elasticsearch works and how to use it to build modern search applications, like Google, Bing, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo etc. Course contains a lot of practical knowledge, examples and hands-on lectures.

If you are a beginner, don’t worry, course guides you from very generic concept of lucene inverted index and role of search engines like Elasticsearch) in the system architecture to more advanced features.

If you have no data to play with, don’t worry we import sample datasets at the very beginning of this course.

If you already have experience with Elasticsearch, you will enjoy the advanced part of it. Maybe you wonder if the way that use use Elasticsearch is the proper way and maybe your queries can return results faster ? If so, then course will help you find answers to that questions, optionally grounding and strengthening your exiting experience. No matter what is your existing level of knowledge, after completing this course, you will be ready to become a true professional in the Elasticsearch community.

In this course, I will show you how to properly use Elasticsearch product. We will start by explaining basic terms and role of Elasticsearch in the system architecture. Then, after importing sample data, we will go through term based queries, range queries, specialized queries, geo queries, nested queries and so on. We will get to know how to build effective notifications by using percolate queries or aggregate and analyze results using aggregations.

I’ll show you how to do highlighting, suggestions, spell corrections, and template your queries. At the end we will cover tuning and optimization best practices, query profiling, performance testing and customize default routing and scoring.

Overall, you’ll learn how to properly and effectively query Elasticsearch in the easy way, without spending hours reading manuals.

I hope to see you in the first lecture.

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