UNLOCKING PERFORMANCE – A JOURNEY OF SCALING UP WITH ELASTICSEARCH

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

A team of 3 developers at Monday.com upgraded their Elasticsearch cluster and improved indexing strategies in just 3 weeks, resulting in a 3.5x average performance boost and a 40x boost in peak times for complex queries. This post highlights in detail how the migration process was performed, breaking it into 5 steps: cluster and index creations, data integration and performance checks, and throttling and optimization. It also comes with 6 takeaways that can be helpful for any general data migration process.