Company
Date Published
Author
Michael Carroll
Word count
650
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

ElasticSearch has enhanced scalable persistent services through its user-friendly scalability using symmetric nodes, though challenges remain in managing ElasticSearch across geographically distant clusters for fault-tolerance and recovery. This tutorial serves as a proof-of-concept for implementing ElasticSearch plugins to facilitate cross-cluster document replication and indexing, aiming to provoke discussion and inspire solutions for global, multi-data center replication despite not being production-ready. It involves configuring either the PubNubChanges or PubNubRiver plugins to propagate ElasticSearch index changes or index PubNub content, respectively, using PubNub's communication platform, with prerequisites including Java setup and a PubNub account. Debugging tools and scripts are provided to test and refine the communication process, requiring installations of Node.js, CoffeeScript, and PubNub, and involve editing scripts with specific publish and subscribe keys to manage document content and indexing.