Category: Elasticsearch

How to Build a Lyrics Website with Laravel Scout and Algolia

Laravel Scout is a driver-based library for adding full-text search to Eloquent models. If you’re not familiar with Laravel or Eloquent models in general, we have a good premium course available here. In this tutorial, we will create a minimal lyrics web site using Laravel Scout and Algolia. To do so, we need a C...

SourceHunt Xmas 2016 – Give the Gift of Open Source Prestige

We’re at this year’s precipice, and it couldn’t have been a better one. How about we make it even better for some packages and libraries in dire need of contributors and stars? This Xmas, let’s give the gift of open source prestige!frickelbruder/kickoff [24 ★] KickOff is a continuous websit...

Build a Search Engine with Node.js and Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an open source search engine, which is gaining popularity due to its high performance and distributed architecture. In this article, I will discuss its key features and walk you through the process of using it to create a Node.js search engine. Introduction to Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is built on to...

Monitoring WordPress Apps with the ELK Stack

WordPress is an amazing piece of engineering. There’s little wonder that more than a quarter of all CMS-based websites are using it. In reality, though, WordPress sites crash just like any other site. Bad plugins or themes causing the “WordPress screen of death”, or WordPress updates going south, are an all too ...

How Can the ELK Stack Be Used to Monitor PHP Apps?

This article was peer reviewed by Christopher Thomas, Younes Rafie, and Scott Molinari. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be!When things go south with our applications — as they sometimes do, whether we like it or not — our log files are normally am...

Introduction to Elasticsearch in PHP

In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at Elasticsearch and how we can use it in PHP. Elasticsearch is an open-source search server based on Apache Lucene. We can use it to perform super fast full-text and other complex searches. It also includes a REST API which allows us to easily issue requests for creating,...