More than 2 years ago we open-sourced our search-collector, a lightweight javascript SDK that allows you to run search KPI collection from your e-commerce website. This post will illustrate our progress with search event data collection to date. Since launch, our search event collector has gathered close to a billion events, all while maintaining utmost […]

Why Abstraction is Necessary for Modern Web Architecture Why abstraction, and why should I reconsider my web-shop architecture? In the next few minutes, I will attempt to lay clear the increase in architectural flexibility, and the associated profit gains. This is especially true when abstraction is considered foundational rather than cosmetic, operational, or even departmental. […]

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, […]

Farewell to 2020! As exciting as it was game-changing, this year too now draws to an end. Like many of us – we at CXP searchHub.io had to adjust to the extraordinary situation. More than one vacation, to faraway lands, boasting paradisiacal beaches, had to be postponed. We found local alternatives instead. Gardens were tended […]

2020 has been an awkward year. Probably you already noticed. Just next to our office there is a great restaurant called Steg7. Marco and his team have hosted many of our business lunch meetings throughout the last years, as well as most of our Christmas events. This year, Marco suffered a dramatic revenue loss, as […]