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basic Elasticsearch (different boosting mechanisms)
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analyze the results of different boosting mechanisms and tune them to work together
Jettro Coenradie
1 week · 4-6 hours per week · BEGINNER
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Help Sneakers to the Max’s customers find the perfect sneakers! As a software engineer at the e-commerce company, your task is to improve its search engine—and hopefully sales—by fine-tuning the order of search results. You’ll adjust the index mapping to import data about sneaker release dates, popularity, and in-stock status. Then, you’ll write extensions to the Elasticsearch queries that boost recent and popular results, forcing out-of-stock sneakers lower. Finally, you’ll use everything you learned to return the most relevant sneakers using a judgment list provided by the product managers. When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills to enhance Elasticsearch queries, while Sneakers to the Max’s customers will easily find the perfect pair.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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Jettro Coenradie

Jettro Coenradie has worked in the search domain for more than 15 years, currently as a search relevance engineer and software architect at Luminis. He’s designed and implemented search solutions for some of the biggest e-commerce companies in the Netherlands and is a valued member of the international Search Relevance Tech community. He served as the technical editor for Manning’s Elasticsearch in Action, 1st edition, and has developed his own Elasticsearch curriculum. He’s shared his expertise in numerous blog posts and conference presentations, including at Devcon and JFall.

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This liveProject is for intermediate-level Elasticsearch practitioners who are interested in learning to boost specific search results. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:

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  • Basic Elasticsearch knowledge
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