Elasticsearch for Software Developers
Training Program: Elasticsearch for Software Developers
Duration
2 day
price
800 USD / person
Location
Via Video Conference
Satisfaction Rate: ★★★★½ 4.5/5 since 2023
Objectives
This two-day hands-on training covers the fundamentals of Elasticsearch, including setup, configuration, search, indexing, and performance optimization.
✔ Understand Elasticsearch architecture & key concepts
✔ Manage clusters, sharding, and replication for performance optimization
✔ Secure your Elasticsearch environment with authentication & administration APIs
✔ Implement advanced search techniques using facets, aggregations & geo-spatial search
✔ Leverage text analysis & NLP to improve search relevance
✔ Set up autocompletion, “Did you mean” suggestions, and search engine services
By the end of this training, you will have a strong foundation to build, optimize, and scale Elasticsearch-powered search solutions.
Audience
This training is designed for:
✔ Software developers
✔ Lead developers
✔ Engineers setting up, replacing, or enhancing search engines
All our courses are accessible to people with disabilities.
Curriculum
Day 1 – Elasticsearch Foundations & Configuration
- Introduction to Elasticsearch
- Overview of Elasticsearch, its architecture & key concepts
- Common use cases & industry applications
- Setup & Configuration
- Installing Elasticsearch & Kibana
- Basic & advanced configuration settings
- Kibana interface customization
- Cluster & Performance Management
- Distributed indexing & cluster architecture
- Sharding & replication strategies
- Monitoring & performance optimization techniques
- Security & Administration
- Authentication & authorization mechanisms
- Administration APIs for system management
- Backup & restore strategies for data protection
- Data Indexation
- Documents, indices & field types overview
- Indexing, updating, deleting, and retrieving documents
- Bulk API for high-volume indexing
Day 2 – Advanced Search & NLP Integration
- Search Fundamentals
- Using the Search API
- Multi-match queries & result pagination
- Sorting and ranking strategies
- Data Modeling & Mappings
- Configuring fields & data types
- Dynamic mapping management
- Text Analysis & Relevance Tuning
- Understanding analyzers, tokenizers, and token filters
- Custom analyzer configuration
- Optimizing search relevance
- Advanced Search Techniques
- Boolean queries & filtering
- Faceted search & aggregations
- Geo-spatial search & approximate matching
- Highlighting for search results
- Building Search Services
- Setting up a real-world search engine use case
- Implementing autocompletion & “Did you mean” suggestions
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Elasticsearch
- Introduction to NLP & its applications in search
- Leveraging NLP with Elasticsearch 8.x
Gain hands-on experience in building scalable and intelligent search applications with Elasticsearch!
Upcoming Sessions
✔ Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th January 2025
✔ Monday 3rd & Tuesday 4th March 2025
✔ Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th May 2025
✔ Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th July 2025
✔ Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th August 2025
✔ Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th October 2025
✔ Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th December 2025
- On-Demand Sessions Available – Custom scheduling upon request.
- Registration closes 48 hours before each session starts.
Prerequisites
✔ Basic knowledge of HTTP & REST
✔ Laptop with Java 8 (minimum required)
✔ IDE & command-line terminal
Teaching Method
40% Presentation & Demonstrations
40% Practical Exercises
20% Q&A & Discussions
Evaluation Method
- 8 to 12 hands-on exercises
- Progress assessed based on exercise completion & success rates
