https://blog.mattblair.co/tags/highlighting/ Recent content in highlighting on A Place for Poor Examples Hugo -- gohugo.io en Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0800 https://blog.mattblair.co/blog/20181121-elasticsearch-perf-work/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0800 https://blog.mattblair.co/blog/20181121-elasticsearch-perf-work/ Wanted to share the results of the work we’ve been doing to improve performance and stabilize our ES cluster. Short Version: Changing sharding and “highlighting” strategies when doing FreeText searches dramatically impacts performance. Long Version: We’ve been load testing various aspects of search to pinpoint features we use that create large amounts of load on the system. Our initial research pointed at normal searches and freetext searches as being problematic.