David Pilato
David Pilato
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Advanced (elastic)search for your legacy application

JDD

Oct. 2020

David Pilato
David Pilato
Advanced (elastic)search for your legacy application

Abstract

How do you mix SQL and NoSQL worlds without starting a messy revolution?

This live coding talk will show you how to add Elasticsearch to your legacy application without changing all your current development habits. Your application will have suddenly have advanced search features, all without the need to write complex SQL code!

David will start from a Spring Boot/MySQL based application and will add a complete integration of Elasticsearch, all live from the stage during his presentation.

Resources

The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.

Video: Advanced (elastic)search for your legacy application

Those videos are recorded from a live coding session.

Code: legacy-search

All the live coding session will start from this repository 00-legacy branch. You can switch to other branches which are the major steps I’m performing while coding. Just follow the README in every branch to understand what you have to do. Compare one branch to the next one to see again the code I’m writing live.

Blog: Advanced search for your legacy application

This blog post describes the major steps I’m doing while on stage. It has not been updated though so it’s better to check out the real code on github.
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Who am I?

Developer | Evangelist at elastic and creator of the Elastic French User Group . Frequent speaker about all things Elastic, in conferences, for User Groups and in companies with BBL talks . In my free time, I enjoy coding and deejaying as DJ Elky , just for fun. Living with my children in Cergy, France.

Details

I discovered Elasticsearch project in 2011. After contributed to the project and created open source plugins for it, David joined elastic the company in 2013 where he is Developer and Evangelist. He also created and still actively managing the French spoken language User Group. At elastic, he mainly worked on Elasticsearch source code, specifically on open-source plugins. In his free time, he likes talking about elasticsearch in conferences or in companies (Brown Bag Lunches AKA BBLs ). He is also author of FSCrawler project which helps to index your pdf, open office, whatever documents in elasticsearch using Apache Tika behind the scene.

Visited countries

You can see here the countries I have visited so far. Most of them are for business purpose but who said you can not do both: business and leisure?

38 countries visited

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