Thijs Feryn is a technical evangelist at a Belgian webhosting company called Combell. His goal is to bring technology to the people and people to technology. He focuses on bridging the gap between code and infrastructure. Thijs is also involved in many open source communities and leads the PHPBenelux community. He speaks, listens, writes, codes, teaches, organizes and is above all very excited to speak at PHP North West this year!
Sunday 4th October 09.00 - 09.45
ElasticSearch is a really powerful search engine, NoSQL database & analytics engine. It is fast, it scales and it's a child of the Cloud/BigData generation. This talk will show you how to get things done using ElasticSearch. The focus is on doing actual work, creating actual queries and achieving actual results. Topics that will be covered: (advanced) filters and queries cluster, shard and index management data mapping analyzers and tokenizers aggregations security & proxying ElasticSearch as part of the ELK stack PHP clients for ElasticSearch Calling ElasticSearch directly from Javascript