Antony Denyer

One of the frustrations of working with elasticsearch is not being able to make changes to your mappings and indexes without being destructive. You’d never use elasticsearch as your source of truth, so this isn’t normally a huge problem. But it can become a bit of a headache. The general advice tends to be ‘make your changes and then re-index everything again.’ Done wrong this can mean your search has no results while you re-index your data. [Read More]

Here is a collection of tips for using AWS lambdas. These tips are based on our experiences of using lambdas to ingest a legacy database into a new elasticsearch cluster. [Read More]

There seems to be two main schools of thought with regards to feature branches. Some argue that feature branches are an abomination and should not be considered as ‘continuous’ integration let alone delivery. Whilst others suggest that feature branches are a way of allowing each developer to work without disturbing everyone else. [Read More]

Performance tips for angularjs Two way data binding using AngularJS is pretty sweet, but it comes at a cost. When dealing with complex data structures or large lists things can get very slow very quickly. Here are some simple things you can check to give your site the performance boost it needs. [Read More]

I think some people are missing the benefits of continuous deployment and are focusing on infrastructure and tools rather than process. The initial incarnation of this chain of thought was continuous integration, where by whenever you check in your code it’s built by a central server. Ensuring that your code builds with other people’s code. Then it was taken a step further by having an automated deployment process. Your code would be automatically deployed after your build & unit test has successfully run. Then people took it further and started declaratively building the infrastructure that was required to run your application. [Read More]