In this article, I will show how to monitor Elasticsearch running inside Kubernetes using the Prometheus-operator, and later Grafana for visualization. Our sample will be based on the cluster described in my last article. There are plenty of businesses that have to run and operate Elasticsearch on their own. This can be solved pretty well, […]

Why Open-Source (also) Matters in eCommerce There are plenty of articles already out there that dig into this question and list the different pros and cons. But as in most cases, the honest answer is “it depends”. So, I want to keep it short and pick – from my perspective – the biggest advantage and […]

One of the biggest causes of website failure is when users simply can’t find stuff on your website. The first law of e-commerce states, “if the user can’t find the product, the user can’t buy the product.” Why is Measuring and Continuously Improving Site-Search so Tricky? This sentence seems obvious and sounds straightforward. However, what […]

Framing the Hurdles to Relevant Ecommerce Search Every e-commerce shop owner wants to achieve ecommerce search relevance with the search results on their website. But what does that really mean? As the German singer Herbert Grönemeyer once stated: “It could all be so easy, but it isn’t”. It could all be so easy, but it […]

You may think the word “dumb services” in connection with software orchestration in the title is clickbait. However, I can assure you, the aforementioned “Orchestration with Dumb Services”, is a real and simple software orchestration concept certainly to improve your sleep. Any engineer, DevOps, or software architect can relate to the stress of running a […]