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A collection of articles, podcasts and blogs on all things cloud, data and digital - from our consultants, industry veterans and experts around the world.
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How to Delete Index in Elasticsearch: A Beginner's Guide
Learn how to delete index in Elasticsearch using REST API, Kibana, scripts, and ILM. Discover best practices to avoid downtime and data loss.

SquareShift Content Team
21 minutes ago4 min read


How Managed Elasticsearch Helped a SaaS Company Scale Search Operations
As our SaaS platform rapidly expanded, maintaining a scalable and reliable search infrastructure became a major challenge. We were spending more than 40% of our engineering bandwidth resolving performance issues and fine-tuning clusters — leaving little time to build features users actually wanted. Adopting Managed Elasticsearch allowed us to streamline search operations, automate scaling, and focus on enhancing search relevance and user experience.

SquareShift Content Team
1 day ago4 min read


OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch: Key Differences for Technical Leaders in 2025
The OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch debate in 2025 goes far beyond licensing disputes. It’s now a critical strategic choice for technical leaders. This comprehensive comparison breaks down their licensing models, feature sets, performance benchmarks, and total cost of ownership (TCO), helping you decide which search and analytics platform best aligns with your enterprise goals.

SquareShift Content Team
6 days ago8 min read


Elastic vs.Weaviate: A High-Stakes Showdown for the Future of AI Search
In 2025, search is splitting into two powerful paths: Weaviate, the AI-native vector database for semantic, contextual, and multi-modal search, and Elastic, the battle-tested leader in blazing-fast full-text, log, and analytics search. This guide breaks down their strengths, from retrieval-augmented generation and recommendations to enterprise observability, helping CTOs and architects decide between meaning and speed. The future of search is semantic, scalable, and AI-driven

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 136 min read


E-commerce Search Engine Optimization: Unlocking Your Online Store's Full Potential
Your website's search bar is more than just a navigation tool; it's your most valuable sales instrument. Discover how an intelligent, well-optimized e-commerce search engine can turn frustrated shoppers into loyal customers and unlock your online store's full potential.

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 117 min read


Building Your Own Smart Elasticsearch Agent with LangGraph and Gemini
This blog post provides a comprehensive guide on building a smart Elasticsearch agent that facilitates natural language querying of data, eliminating the need for users to master Elasticsearch's complex DSL. The agent's workflow, orchestrated by LangGraph and powered by Google's Gemini model for natural language understanding and query generation, involves normalizing user queries, translating them into Elasticsearch DSL, executing the search, and summarizing the results for

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 1813 min read


Benchmarking Full-Text Search Performance when using LogsDB mode
See how LogsDB mode affects Elasticsearch search speed, efficiency, and scalability for optimized performance.

SquareShift Engineering Team
Mar 263 min read


Benchmark Storage Reduction: Elasticsearch LogsDB index mode vs Standard index mode
Compare Elasticsearch LogsDB index mode vs. standard index mode for optimized storage, faster queries, and cost efficiency. See how they sta

SquareShift Engineering Team
Mar 263 min read


Exploring Elastic AI Observability (Elastic AI OBS)
Exploring Elastic AI Observability (Elastic AI OBS)

SquareShift Engineering Team
Nov 24, 20242 min read


Elastic: Transforming Data into Real-Time Insights for Search, Observability, and Security
Elastic: Transforming Data into Real-Time Insights for Search, Observability, and Security

SquareShift Engineering Team
Nov 18, 20243 min read


Powering Data Analytics with Elasticsearch: A Visual Guide
Powering Data Analytics with Elasticsearch: A Visual Guide

SquareShift Engineering Team
Nov 15, 20242 min read


Elasticsearch Certification Success: Your Guide to Acing the Elastic Certified Engineer Exam
Elasticsearch Certification Success: Your Guide to Acing the Elastic Certified Engineer Exam

SquareShift Engineering Team
Nov 7, 20242 min read


Why the Only Difference Between Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is Vendor Dependency
Why the Only Difference Between Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is Vendor Dependency

SquareShift Engineering Team
Nov 2, 20244 min read


Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Errors: A Self-Learning Guide
Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Errors: A Self-Learning Guide

SquareShift Engineering Team
Oct 21, 20243 min read


The Power of Practice: How Repetition Leads to Elasticsearch Mastery
The Power of Practice: How Repetition Leads to Elasticsearch Mastery

SquareShift Engineering Team
Oct 18, 20242 min read


OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch: Let’s decide that today!
OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch: Let’s decide that today!

SquareShift Engineering Team
Oct 17, 20242 min read


Every Company is a Search Company - Are You One Yet?
Every Company is a Search Company - Are You One Yet
Arvind Venkatesh
Oct 17, 20245 min read


Mastering Elasticsearch: Learning with Multiple Formats and Active Engagement
Mastering Elasticsearch: Learning with Multiple Formats and Active Engagement

SquareShift Engineering Team
Oct 9, 20242 min read


Why Search Technology is Revolutionizing Industries: A Look at Elastic's Pioneering Role
Search is ubiquitous now. People search on google, website and even voice search nowadays with your IOT devices. To give a context into...
Arvind Venkatesh
Oct 8, 20243 min read


Exploring Search Engine Technologies: A Modern Guide
Exploring Search Engine Technologies: A Modern Guide

SquareShift Engineering Team
Oct 4, 20242 min read
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