Neil Dewhurst

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Connection Pooling with MongoDB

Connection Pooling with MongoDB

TL;DR Making proper use of connection pooling can massively improve the performance of your MongoDB deployment. At Compose we…

Neil Dewhurst
Neil Dewhurst
Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 5

Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 5

In the final step of the series, we create a web application to access the Elasticsearch managed data and show how to host th…

Neil Dewhurst
Neil Dewhurst
Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 4

Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 4

In the previous article in this series we indexed the petitions to go with the constituencies data that we worked with in the…

Neil Dewhurst
Neil Dewhurst
Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 3

Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 3

So far in this series of articles we've been looking at the constituencies dataset and how we can control the way Elasticsear…

Neil Dewhurst
Neil Dewhurst
Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 2

Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 2

In the first article in this series we created a Compose Elasticsearch deployment, created an index, added some documents and…

Neil Dewhurst
Neil Dewhurst
Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 1

Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js - Part 1

In this article we're going to look at using Node to connect to an Elasticsearch deployment, index some documents and perform…

Neil Dewhurst
Neil Dewhurst