Evolving with Elastic: GetSet Learning
- 1. 1 Evolving With Elastic Ray Myers and Eric Bjerstedt GetSet Learning
- 2. 2 Who we are Ray Myers Lead SRE @ Morningstar Former Chief Engineer @ GetSet Eric Bjerstedt VP Product @ GetSet
- 3. 3 Background: About GetSet GetSet is a private social network for colleges and universities. Students use GetSet to meet classmates, share tips, and get questions answered. Schools use GetSet for analytics and course discussions.
- 4. 4 Act I_ The Early Days
- 5. 5 GetSet "Orientation" GetSet started as a linear series of student "stories." Our vision: build a community around sharing these stories.
- 6. 6 From "Orientation" to "Community" How do we build a community around these stories? Enter Elasticsearch.
- 7. 77 Stemming sparked collaboration Very quickly, we realized the limitations of simple text search and introduced stemming, which was an inflection point in our collaboration. waited waiting waits waited
- 9. 9 Recommended tags We used Elasticsearch's "More like this" function to recommend tags that had been used on similar posts. Our experience building that feature led to bigger ideas.
- 10. 10 Recommended feed We used Elasticsearch's "More like this" function to recommend tags that had been used on similar posts. Two months later, we released a major update, including a new Home page, featuring a feed of recommended posts.
- 11. 11 Act III_ Not as Hard as You Think
- 12. 12 Influence Influence sends personalized "microinterventions." We rapidly prototyped it using Elasticsearch for recommendations. It's now a highly profitable product, with very few changes from that prototype.
- 13. 13 Analytics
- 15. 15 Lessons learned Elasticsearch enabled extremely productive collaboration between product and engineering. Here are some behind the scenes things that made that possible: ● Unified search framework ● Sync process ● Elastic Cloud
- 16. 16 Questions_