Have you deployed ElasticSearch to production? If so, I got couple of questions for you.

How much complexity did ES add to the project overall from a developers perspective?

How much did this differ in price from other solutions you used? In production loads that is.

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Self hosted ES so no more than the cost of the machines already running. Love the speed and flexibility. Hate the complexity of setting it up and upgrading. Going to be moving to a the AWS hosted ES soon. Should cost the same overall since we will be able to make the current servers smaller.

Sometimes results are not as expected but tweaking the queries and weighing certain fields heavier usually fixes that. My only real advice, use an SDK that has query builder.

@electric-ghost That’s an issue I remember hearing discussed in my vicinity before.

I assume, since the love for ES, that the costs of those reindexes are bearable? How often do you find yourself is an upgrade situation like this? Monthly?

@CodeMonkeyG That’s very good advice on the Query Builder and I will be taking it to heart.

What options have you found to be solid in your travels?

As a PHP developer, I'm happy ElastiCo offers there own SDK. Start with the ones they offer if you can.

I was hoping for a discussion about ES (Emulation Station).

@JohnScott Start a new rant and we'll talk about it too. Promise.

@CodeMonkeyG K.