For one of our projects we wanted to create some nice charts. Feels like something you often want but do not do because it takes to much time. This time we really needed it. I had prior experience with Highcharts, which is also a nice library. But this time we wanted more control. We had […]
Creating an advanced Kibana dashboard using a script
Some time ago, Kibana joined the elasticsearch family. A lot of good things have come out of it. These days Kibana is becoming more advanced. But with more users also come more demands. One of those demands is more advanced dashboards than can be clicked together in the very nice GUI. We want to be […]
Evaluating elasticsearch and marvel on the raspberry pi
The past years I have been working with search solutions, mostly elasticsearch. During this time a bought myself a raspberry pi and installed java and elasticsearch on it. Then I put it in the closet and it did not come out anymore. Than a few weeks a go the guys from elasticsearch released marvel. Marvel […]
Use Kibana to analyze your images
If you are reading some technical blogs, maybe about search or data analysis, chances are big you have read about Kibana. You have seen stories about how easy it is to use. Most of the blogging effort deals with getting data into kibana using logstash for instance. Maybe some of you have installed Kibana […]
Improved search for Hippo CMS websites using ElasticSearch
We have done multiple big Hippo projects. A regular Hippo project consists of multiple components like the website, the content management system and a repository for the documents. In most of the projects we also introduce the integration component. This component is used to pull other data sources into Hippo, but we also use it […]
Introducing a Query tool as an Elasticsearch plugin (part 2)
In the first part of this series of blogs on Introducing a Query as an Elasticsearch plugin, I described the functionality of a query tool I also discussed the functionality of the tool as the structure of the project. In this part I want to take a deeper dive in interacting with Elasticsearch. The post […]
AngularJS: Lessons learned
At Devoxx 2012 I attended the AngularJS presentation by Igor Minar and Misko Hevery. I was very enthusiastic about the capabilities of this front-end framework. Therefore I started experimenting with it. I created a sample for the Axon Framework, read more about it here. After my experiments I felt confident enough to start using it […]
Introducing a Query tool as an Elasticsearch plugin (part 1)
In the past few weeks I have been working with Elasticsearch. I was missing a plugin to look at the data, create queries and evaluate different facets. That was when I decided to start working on a plugin that enables you to do just this. I have been working on AngularJS together with Twitter Bootstrap, […]
Basic Axon Framework sample using vert.x and angular.js
Some people on the Axon Framework mailing list were asking for more basic samples, preferably using something like vert.x. Since I am familiar with Axon as well as vert.x I thought I could help out. Therefore I have created a very basic application based on vert.x using the Axon Framework. The application is all about […]
And that was Devoxx 2012, partnering with 10gen and a lot of knowledge gaining
Last week a couple of my colleagues and I were in Antwerp visiting the Devoxx conference. In this blog post we try to give you an idea about what we did & learned: The sessions I attended a lot of sessions, if you want to know more I urge you to read on. I briefly discuss […]