I’m about to sit in on a Coloft Academy class called Elasticsearch, An Introduction. As it’s title suggests, it’s a class that introduces you to Elasticsearch, a “flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud.” Long story short, I’m pretty lost already.
Other students of this class include the CTO of DocStoc, and devs from Science and Demand Media. Definitely going to be lost…
In my experience though, pushing your limits is a great way to speed up learning. I assume I’ll be completely lost during this class, and perhaps a few years later I’ll remember this class and notice how far I’ve come along.
Mostly, I’m writing this blog post so I can type up all the words I don’t understand:
- “Clustered” database
- Dynamo
- Riak
- Cassandra
- Lucene – a set of Java libraries to perform search
- NFS
- top-level namespace
- “clustering”
- boolean filters
Huh, surprisingly I was able to follow most of the class. Baller.
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