
Articles by Neil Dewhurst
Connection Pooling with MongoDB
TL;DR Making proper use of connection pooling can massively improve the performance of your MongoDB deployment. At Compose we…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…
