Introducing elasticsearch*

Just opensourced a starcluster plugin for provisioning elasticsearch clusters automatically in the cloud. What is Starcluster? Starcluster is great for spinning up clusters of ec2 nodes quickly for some analytics / data chomping. If you’re not familiar take a look at this very cool screencast: Starcluster and Elasticsearch = best friends Elasticsearch is a great fit - it runs smoothly on ec2 and for ease of searching big data is second to none. [Read More]