The Road to Elasticsearch

This Learning Path seeks to present you the new ElasticSock stack and its flagship software, Elasticsearch. Embark on a journey like never before with Elasticsearch 5.0. With its lightning-fast speed and open source nature, Elasticsearch has risen exponentially in the past few years to become the preferred intra-web search engine of choice, with customers ranging from Cisco to NASA.

If you’re new to Elasticsearch, this Learning Path will teach you everything you need to know about it and should serve as a comprehensive introduction to the Elastic stack. If you’re experienced with Elasticsearch and still fashion yourself as an ‘ELK stack’ developer, this Learning Path will bring you up to speed with Elasticsearch 5.0 and the new Elastic stack, which includes not just Logstash and Kibana but a few other important tools and plugins that you need to know as well. We would begin by getting ourselves acquainted with the Elastic stack. Then, we will explore Elasticsearch 5.0 in greater depth.

By the end of this Learning Path, you have developed a strong foundation in Elasticsearch and the Elastic stack, and fully understand how it works, such that you can effortlessly leverage its power when building quality, real-time, modern search applications.