Elasticsearch as a smart cache
A novel use of Elasticsearch in the context of holiday search, not as a traditional store of persistent documents, but as a rolling cache of transient holiday packages. This puts unique demands on Elasticsearch in terms of index and deletion rate, concurrent to a high query rate.
Figures below are from February 2014, so will have changed.
Fancy a holiday? The travel industry works around the principal of ‘dynamic packaging’ of holidays.
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