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Articles by Tyler Perkins

Senior Product Manager

Tyler is a product manager on the Elasticsearch team, responsible for Data Management features, Cross-cluster search, and Stack Monitoring. Before Elastic he worked in Product Management at one of our customers, where he helped build an end-to-end observability solution for mission critical financial services around Elastic and Kafka. Tyler enjoys cycling with his wife, snowboarding, music and hi-fi audio, cars, and anything DIY. More recently he got into off-road RC car racing with his sons.

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Elastic Platform 8.15: Native vector database now supports bit vectors, SIMD acceleration, and simple config

Elasticsearch native vector database now supports bit vectors, SIMD acceleration, and int4 quantization. The new semantic_text field type makes generating embeddings simple. ES|QL has new query capabilities and an expanded UI in Kibana Discover.

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Elastic Platform 8.14: ES|QL GA, encryption at rest, and vector search optimizations

Elastic Platform 8.14 includes ES|QL GA, the use of AI for pattern recognition in logs, API key based security model for remote clusters, encryption at rest with KMS keys, retrievers, several vector optimizations, and vector quantization by default.

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Elasticsearch and Kibana 8.13: Simplified kNN and improved query parallelization

Elasticsearch and Kibana 8.13 deliver simplified kNN, improved query parallelization plus improvements to ES|QL, anomaly detection, and new improved health indicators. Also announcing the Elastic Integration Filter and GA of Kafka for Elastic Agent.

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Elastic Stack 8.12: Enhanced vector search with improvements to ES|QL and more

The 8.12 release includes improved vector data handling with efficient search, query parallelization, enhanced pipeline features, remote search status, new maintenance windows, and ES|QL query editing in Dashboard.

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Elastic Stack 8.11: Introducing a new powerful query language, ES|QL

Elastic Stack 8.11 introduces an advanced query language known as ES|QL in the Discover application, making data exploration more straightforward and user friendly. The Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) is now generally available.

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Elastic Stack 8.10: Simpler cross-cluster search and authentication, and more

Simplify configuring cross-cluster search, execute vector search faster, detect data drifts and log rate dips, stream Elastic Agent to Kafka, and authenticate Webhook connector using third-party security certificates with Elastic Stack 8.10.

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Elastic Stack 8.9: Faster cross-cluster searches and aggregations on metrics

Elastic Stack 8.9 delivers significant speed-up of aggregations for metrics, faster and more reliable cross-cluster searches, and management of alert rules using Terraform.

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How we sped up data ingestion in Elasticsearch 8.6, 8.7, and 8.8

Data ingestion involves a lot of things that usually take a non-negligible amount of time. Fortunately, we've got improvements in 8.6, 8.7, and 8.8, which enabled some good speedups for end-to-end ingestion.