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Wai Tak Wong
Wai Tak Wong
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Wai Tak Wong

Wai Tak Wong is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Kean University, NJ, USA. He has more than 15 years professional experience in cloud software design and development. His PhD in computer science was obtained at NJIT, NJ, USA. Wai Tak has served as an associate professor in the Information Management Department of Chung Hua University, Taiwan. A co-founder of Shanghai Shellshellfish Information Technology, Wai Tak acted as the Chief Scientist of the R&D team, and he has published more than a dozen algorithms in prestigious journals and conferences. Wai Tak began his search and analytics technology career with Elasticsearch in the real estate market and later applied this to data management and FinTech data services.
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Overview of the Elastic Stack

According to the documentation of the latest version of the Elastic Stack (available at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/7.0/installing-elastic-stack.html), there are six components: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, APM Server, and Elasticsearch-Hadoop. If you use more than one component, you must use the same version across the stack. Let's give a brief description of each component as follows:

  • Kibana: In version 7.0 of the Elastic Stack, Kibana is a UI framework for working with Elasticsearch. It now supports a dark theme across the entire UI, and a responsive dashboard to take a step forward to support mobile devices.
  • Logstash: This is an open source data collection engine that provides a real-time data processing pipeline from multiple sources and then sends the collected logs to a defined target, such as an Elasticsearch...
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Published in: Aug 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789957754

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Wai Tak Wong

Wai Tak Wong is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Kean University, NJ, USA. He has more than 15 years professional experience in cloud software design and development. His PhD in computer science was obtained at NJIT, NJ, USA. Wai Tak has served as an associate professor in the Information Management Department of Chung Hua University, Taiwan. A co-founder of Shanghai Shellshellfish Information Technology, Wai Tak acted as the Chief Scientist of the R&D team, and he has published more than a dozen algorithms in prestigious journals and conferences. Wai Tak began his search and analytics technology career with Elasticsearch in the real estate market and later applied this to data management and FinTech data services.
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