Hello, my name is Kuni Sen, and I work in Elastic Support. I joined Elastic in 2017 and from the start I’ve been struck by how Elastic supports its Elasticians to do their best work. Elastic is very different from the companies I’ve worked for in the past, and I’m so enthusiastic about the balance and flexibility that Elastic offers that I want to share with others some of the reasons they might want to join us.My backgroundBefore I joined Elastic, I worked for a traditional Japanese company in
“An adaptive business model that has employee experience at its core is the key to building business resilience, creating sustainable competitive advantage, and scaling effectively in times of disruption.” This is one of the key findings of a new commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, on behalf of Elastic. As VP of Global IT at Elastic, I’ve read the study with great interest – not least because it’s based on a survey of my peers, some 1,000 IT leaders from around the world. 
Today, we are pleased to announce a partnership with Confluent to jointly develop and deliver an enhanced product experience to the Kafka-Elasticsearch community. Kafka is — and has been since the very early days — an important component of the Elastic ecosystem. The new partnership will work on co-developing new capabilities and improving existing product integrations to make it easier for our joint users to use the Elastic Stack and Kafka together, including strengthening the native integratio
Have you ever tried to search for objects in images? Elasticsearch can help you store, analyze, and search for objects in images or videos. In this quick tutorial, we’ll show you how to build a system for facial recognition with Python. Learn more about how to detect and encode facial information — and find matches in search. A quick walkthrough of the basicsNeed a refresher? Let's briefly review some fundamentals about a few basic concepts. Facial recognitionFacial recognition is the process
I joined Elastic almost eight months ago as vice president of the US commercial segment. During these whirlwind eight months, I was recently promoted to vice president of our new global Inside Sales team — a rapidly expanding team that’s energetic, ambitious, and full of opportunities.As part of that growth, we’re hiring 100 inside sales people who will be based in our office hubs in Austin, London, and Singapore. But we’re not only hiring sales reps — in the coming months we’ll also be bringing
In case you hadn’t heard, we recently released a brand new web crawler for Elastic App Search. The web crawler provides a simple way to ingest publicly available web content and make that content instantly searchable on your website. Configuring the web crawler to start ingesting data from your website is super easy — it’s just a matter of a few clicks. This sounds great, but what if after crawling there are no pages being indexed or you feel some pages are missing? How can you easily narrow dow
We’re pleased to announce you can now run Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure in the East US (Virginia) region. Elastic Cloud gives you the power of enterprise search, observability, and security in the East US (Virginia) region of Azure. Easily search applications, websites, and workplace content platforms for information. Quickly gain deep insights into your environment by monitoring applications and uptime as well as analyzing centralized logs and metrics. You can also help protect your technolo
In our Leadership @ Elastic blog series, we highlight the innovative thinking behind the action at Elastic — from making distributed work, work, to better enabling the next phase of our progress through consistency, forward-thinking, and collaboration. In this edition, we hear from Hendrik Haas, regional vice president of central Europe enterprise sales.What do you like to do in your spare time?I like to spend a lot of time with my wife and two kids. My daughter is 16, and my son is 19.I also lo
Community is at the heart of everything we do at Elastic, and we wouldn’t be able to have such a vibrant and active community without our user group organizers. Each month we highlight some of our globally distributed user group organizers to learn more about their Elastic stories and understand their motivation for being involved in the Elastic community. We’ll also highlight any tips they can share for hosting successful meetups.This month, we are delighted to showcase a few of our organizers
With Elastic 7.12, Discover now uses the fields API by default. Reading from _source is still supported through a switch in the Advanced Settings. This change stems from updates made to Elasticsearch in 7.11 with the extension of the Search API to include the new fields parameter. When using the new search parameter, both a document’s raw source and the index mappings to load and return values are used. Because it makes use of the mappings, fields has some advantages over referencing the _source