Biography

Roy Russo is the co-author of Elasticsearch in Action and Vice President of Engineering at Predikto Analytics. Before joining Predikto, Roy was the Chief Architect at AltiSource Labs, a FinTech startup based in Atlanta, GA. Roy was the Co-Founder and VP of Product Management for Atlanta-based Marketing Automation vendor, LoopFuse; recently acquired by Atlanta-based SalesFusion, Inc. Roy also helped Co-Found JBoss Portal, a JSR-168 compliant enterprise Java Portal, and represented JBoss on the Java Content Repository, JSR-170.

Introduction to ElasticSearch Clusters

This presentation will cover ElasticSearch general concepts, and the configuration and deployment of this fault-tolerant indexing and search system. The presentation will focus on optimization techniques and deployment best-practices in running high-performing ElasticSearch cluster. Some of the topics covered will focus on optimizing indices, organizing data, analyzing data, retrieving data efficiently, and avoiding failure and performance degradation in a running cluster.