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Published inJun 2017
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781787128453
Edition1st Edition
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Abhishek Andhavarapu
Abhishek Andhavarapu
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Abhishek Andhavarapu

Abhishek Andhavarapu is a software engineer at eBay who enjoys working on highly scalable distributed systems. He has a master's degree in Distributed Computing and has worked on multiple enterprise Elasticsearch applications, which are currently serving hundreds of millions of requests per day. He began his journey with Elasticsearch in 2012 to build an analytics engine to power dashboards and quickly realized that Elasticsearch is like nothing out there for search and analytics. He has been a strong advocate since then and wrote this book to share the practical knowledge he gained along the way.
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Elasticsearch supports highlighting the parts of the response that caused the match. In the following query, the matches in the product_name field are highlighted:

#Highlighting
POST chapter7/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"product_name": {
"query": "samsung"

}
}
},
"highlight": {
"fields" : {
"product_name" : {}
}
}
}

The response to the preceding query is as follows:

{
....
"hits": {
"total": 2,
"max_score": 0.7590336,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "chapter7",
"_type": "product",
"_id": "AVsC7GDlF21JdiUIl1Q-",
"_score": 0.7590336,
"_source"...
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Published in: Jun 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787128453

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Abhishek Andhavarapu

Abhishek Andhavarapu is a software engineer at eBay who enjoys working on highly scalable distributed systems. He has a master's degree in Distributed Computing and has worked on multiple enterprise Elasticsearch applications, which are currently serving hundreds of millions of requests per day. He began his journey with Elasticsearch in 2012 to build an analytics engine to power dashboards and quickly realized that Elasticsearch is like nothing out there for search and analytics. He has been a strong advocate since then and wrote this book to share the practical knowledge he gained along the way.
Read more about Abhishek Andhavarapu