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17th February 2010 - Link Blog

Search Engine Time Machine. Detailed explanation of how ElasticSearch provides high availability, through clever sharding and replication strategies and configurable gateways for long-term persistent storage.

Posted 17th February 2010 at 10:32 pm

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