Scaling Search with Elasticsearch
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Join us for a Austin Elastic User Group meetup on Thursday, April 16th for a meetup!
We'll feature a talk, followed by pizza, refreshments, and connecting with the Austin Elastic community.
⚡️ Interested in giving a talk? ⚡️
Are you interested presenting on your Elastic use case? We welcome 5-10 minute lightning talks, 45-minute deep dives, and everything in between. If you're interested, please send an email to meetups@elastic.co
Date and Time:
Thursday, April 16th, from 5:30-8:00 pm CDT
Location:
Elastic Austin Office: 8th Floor
823 Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701
Parking:
Parking options nearby include several garages or street parking in nearby blocks. Check out SpotHero to reserve a parking spot in advance!
Arrival Instructions:
When you arrive at the office, head to the 8th floor.
The main entrance to the building is on 9th Street, between Congress Ave and Brazos St.
Agenda:
- 5:30 pm: Doors open
- 6:00 pm: When Your Search Outgrows Your Platform - Rebecca Burch (Software Engineer II at
Texas A&M Transportation Institute) - 6:30-7:30 pm: Networking
Talk Abstracts:
When Your Search Outgrows Your Platform - Rebecca Burch (Software Engineer II at
Texas A&M Transportation Institute)
This talk traces the real infrastructure patterns that emerge when native search stops working: custom indexing layers, incremental sync pipelines, relevance tuning, and reconciliation logic. Drawn from building a production search system serving 700+ employees, we'll walk through the warning signs that you're accidentally rebuilding a search engine inside your application layer, and how Elasticsearch provides purpose-built solutions for each of these patterns. Expect a side-by-side look at what it takes to roll your own vs. reaching for the right tool intentionally.
