Online Course: Administering an ElasticSearch Cluster

Glad to complete this course. Wonderful materials for things like rolling restart for es upgrade, rolling index, snapshot via curator, the head plugin and es health check tips. Learned a lot on how to run es cluster properly.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/administering-elasticsearch-cluster/table-of-contents

Elastic Search Cookbook

The book is nice and easy for someone who just starts learning ElasticSearch. Interesting reader can get the book from:

http://www.amazon.com/ElasticSearch-Cookbook-Alberto-Paro/dp/1782166629

There are some parts which i feel a bit verbose such as when explaining the installation and different ways of search, query, map, etc (which will be useful for reference anyway) as i only need to understand a subset of these command while explore the rest in the wild (e.g., http://java.dzone.com/articles/elasticsearch-java-api). While I did read through most of the materials, the book seems to me a bit week to present in a short and concise way to get someone immediately up-to-speed with working with various features of elastic search. However, coupled with a bit of online resources, it is actually quite easy to get started and toy with elastic search.