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Fast vs. accurate: Measuring the recall of quantized vector search

Explaining how to measure recall for vector search in Elasticsearch with minimal setup.

Jeff Vestal

Testing Elasticsearch. It just got simpler.

Explaining how Elasticsearch integration tests have become simpler thanks to improvements in Elasticsearch 9.x, the modern Java client, and Testcontainers 2.x.

Piotr Przybyl

AI agent memory: Creating smart agents with Elasticsearch managed memory

Learn how to create smarter and more efficient AI agents by managing memory using Elasticsearch.

Gustavo Llermaly

The Gemini CLI extension for Elasticsearch with tools and skills

Introducing Elastic’s extension for Google's Gemini CLI to search, retrieve, and analyze Elasticsearch data in developer and agentic workflows.

Walter Rafelsberger

Agent Skills for Elastic: Turn your AI agent into an Elastic expert

Give your AI coding agent the knowledge to query, visualize, secure, and automate with Elastic Agent Skills.

Graham Hudgins

Entity resolution with Elasticsearch, part 4: The ultimate challenge

Solving and evaluating entity resolution challenges in a highly diverse “ultimate challenge” dataset designed to prevent shortcuts.

Jessica Moszkowicz

The stateless architecture of Elasticsearch Serverless

Exploring the stateless architecture of Elasticsearch Serverless. Learn how the stateful architecture was transformed into stateless for Serverless.

Iraklis Psaroudakis

Hybrid search with Java: LangChain4j Elasticsearch integration

Learn how to use hybrid search in LangChain4j via its Elasticsearch integrations, with a complete Java example.

Laura Trotta

SearchClaw: Bring Elasticsearch to OpenClaw with composable skills

Give your local AI agent access to Elasticsearch data using OpenClaw, composable skills, and agents, no custom code required.

Alex Salgado

Building effective database retrieval tools for context engineering

Best practices for writing database retrieval tools for context engineering. Learn how to design and evaluate agent tools for interacting with Elasticsearch data.

Leonie Monigatti

Build task-aware agents with an expanded model catalog on Elastic Inference Service (EIS)

Elastic Inference Service (EIS) expands its managed model catalog, enabling teams to build production-ready agents with flexible model choice across retrieval, generation, and reasoning, without managing GPUs or infrastructure.

Sean Handley

Does MCP make search obsolete? Not even close

Explore why search engines and indexed search remain the foundation for scalable, accurate, enterprise-grade AI, even in the age of MCP, federated search, and large context windows.

Dayananda Srinivas