Agenda: A talk by Sports195 followed by Q&A with Elasticsearch co-founder, Uri Boness, and Support Engineer, Binh Ly.

Karen Sun and team from Sports195 will discuss uses of Elasticsearch and provide a deep dive into their internal Scala Elasticsearch library which wraps the Java API. 

Use Cases

- Relationship/association retrieval and suggestions

- Text search

- News streams

- Entity matching

- Social site interactions

- Aggregations

Scala Library

 - making the Java api more "scala-like": mixins, composable queries, and typesafety

- AST generator for parsing string params into infinitely nestable filters/aggregations

- touch upon custom http client implementation to assist in major version upgrades

Food and beverages provided.