Practical considerations for bulk processing
It's awesome to minimize the requests using the search types and bulk APIs we saw in this chapter, but you also need to think that for a large amount of processing to be done by Elasticsearch, you need to take care of resource utilization and control the size of your requests accordingly. The following are some points that will help you while working with the things you have learned in this chapter.
The most important factor to be taken care of is the size of your documents. Fetching or indexing 1 KB of 1,000 documents in a single request is damn easier than 100 KB of 1,000 documents:
- Multisearch: While querying with multi search requests, you should take care of how many queries you are hitting in a ...
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