12 Years of Elasticsearch Taught Me This About OpenSearch

I never thought I'd be recommending OpenSearch over Elasticsearch after 12 years in the game

The Conversation That Changed Everything Three weeks ago, I was sitting across from the CTO of a major financial services company. We’d been working together for months on their search infrastructure, and frankly, things weren’t going well. Their Elasticsearch cluster was burning through budget faster than a startup burns through venture capital, and the performance? […]

A CTO’s Guide to Choosing Between Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Emerging AI Solutions

Picture this: You’re sitting in a boardroom, surrounded by stakeholders who expect you to make a technology decision that will impact your organization for the next five to ten years. The question isn’t just about choosing a search engine — it’s about selecting the foundation that will either accelerate your digital transformation or become a […]

Beyond Elastic Support: Maximizing Your Elasticsearch Investment in 2025

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A Personal Encounter with the Elastic Support Gap Not long ago, a Fortune 500 company nearly gave up on Elasticsearch. After pouring a small fortune into licenses and hardware, their e-commerce search was still struggling – slow results, irrelevant outputs, frustrated users. Elastic’s own consulting partners had come and gone, leaving behind only partial fixes […]