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Using FastAPI’s WebSockets and Elasticsearch to build a real-time app

Learn how to build a real-time application using FastAPI WebSockets and Elasticsearch.

Using FastAPI’s WebSockets and Elasticsearch to build a real-time app
Elasticsearch shards and replicas: A practical guide

August 14, 2025

Elasticsearch shards and replicas: A practical guide

Master the concepts of Elasticsearch shards and replicas and learn how to optimize them.

Failure store: see what didn’t make it

August 13, 2025

Failure store: see what didn’t make it

Learn about failure store, a new feature in the Elastic Stack that captures and indexes previously lost events.

How to display fields of an Elasticsearch index

August 6, 2025

How to display fields of an Elasticsearch index

Learn how to display fields of an Elasticsearch index using the _mapping and _search APIs, sub-fields, synthetic _source, and runtime fields.

Working with your App Search data in a post Enterprise Search world

Working with your App Search data in a post Enterprise Search world

With Enterprise Search decommissioned in the Elastic Stack version 9, you can still work with your existing App Search data—we’ll show you how.

Elasticsearch plugin for UBI: Analyze user behavior from search queries

Elasticsearch plugin for UBI: Analyze user behavior from search queries

Discover how to use the UBI plugin to capture search queries and events in Elasticsearch to learn about user behavior.

Building intelligent duplicate detection with Elasticsearch and AI

Building intelligent duplicate detection with Elasticsearch and AI

Explore how organizations can leverage Elasticsearch to detect and handle duplicates in loan or insurance applications.

LlamaIndex and Elasticsearch Rerankers: Unbeatable simplicity

July 24, 2025

LlamaIndex and Elasticsearch Rerankers: Unbeatable simplicity

Learn how to transition from Llamaindex RankGPT reranker to Elastic built-in semantic reranker.

Building Elasticsearch APIs with FastAPI

Building Elasticsearch APIs with FastAPI

Learn how to build an Elasticsearch API with FastAPI using Pydantic schemas and FastAPI background tasks, demonstrated with a practical example.

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