I really like working on ElasticSearch, so powerful, so easy to use, so scalable and so high available. I’ve found a very interresting book I bought on it. It will help you to start with ElasticSearch and answer a lot of question you may have regarding the product. If you want to buy it, take a look there.

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During the last weeks I started to play with Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana. I made a documentation to help on deploying it easily. As you may know, I’m an Ansible fan, so I made Ansible playbooks to deploy a complete infrastructure (server and clients). They will deploy this kind of architecture: On the client side, Fluentd clients will get syslog and Nginx logs, to send them to the Fluentd server. On the server side, a Fluentd receiver will be there to get data from other Fluentd clients.

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I really like this kind of news, new versions of docker and RedHat: Docker 1.0: this is the first stable version after more than one year of development. This version is production ready and I will start using it asap. RedHat 7: this is a good news as the version 6 started to be a little bit old now. What’s new? MariaDB replace MySQL \o/ Docker integrated systemd XFS by default Kernel 3.

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Next Tuesday, ElasticSearch will takes place. Last meetup was very interesting and technical. I hope this one will be as good as the last one. There will be a talk from Dailymotion and an ElasticSearch Core developer. To get more informations it’s here.

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A new french meetup MongoDB related will take place next Tuesday in Paris. This will be a practical session to learn how to integrates and manage a MongoDB through Java. From shell and MongoDB drivers to make a website integration. Thanks for the organization Duchess! To get more informations it’s here.

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Regarding one of my latest post, talking about Fluentd, some of you asked me why I’ve chosen Fluentd instead of Logstash. First of all, I’ve looked at this blog post, which kindly resume the current situation. Looking at this and with feedback I got, I could establish this array: <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #c9daf8; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Logstash&quot;]"> Logstash </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #c9daf8; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Fluentd&quot;]"> Fluentd </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Flexibility/Interoperability&quot;]"> Flexibility/Interoperability </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Simplicity/Robustness&quot;]"> Simplicity/Robustness </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;JRuby&quot;]"> JRuby </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Cruby&quot;]"> Cruby </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;More&quot;]"> More </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #f4cccc; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Fewer&quot;]"> Fewer </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #f4cccc; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Basics&quot;]"> Basics </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Scalables&quot;]"> Scalables </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #f4cccc; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Lot&quot;]"> Lot </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Lot more&quot;]"> Lot more </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Simple (drop a jar)&quot;]"> Simple (drop a jar) </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Can be complex (dependancies)&quot;]"> Can be complex (dependencies) </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Yes&quot;]"> Yes </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Yes&quot;]"> Yes </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #f4cccc; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Forward to 2 hosts&quot;]"> Forward to 2 hosts </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;LB A/A or A/P&quot;]"> LB A/A or A/P </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #f4cccc; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;Can loss messages&quot;]"> Can loss messages </td> <td style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #d9ead3; text-align: center;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,&quot;No message loss&quot;]"> No message loss </td> Logstash and Fluentd are both powerful solutions, they both got pros and cons.

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