Elasticsearch

Search at Wattpad via Elasticsearch: Upgrading and Updating

Search at Wattpad via Elasticsearch: Diagnosing Issues

Search at Wattpad via Elasticsearch

Here at Wattpad we serve 80+ million users monthly. A vast amount of our traffic is from Wattpad…

Using Nginx as a proxy for ElasticSearch (and how to stop blaming the sun)

We use ElasticSearch to power our search infrastructure. It’s fast, scalable, and usually quite stable. That isn’t a knock against ElasticSearch, but its stability is very dependent on how you setup and…

Self-Ranking Search with Elasticsearch at Wattpad

At Wattpad search is used millions of times a day by people looking to discover stories they want to read. We use Elasticsearch to power these searches over tens of millions of documents. One of the techniques we use allows the search system to…