Over the past few years, machine learning (ML) has quietly become an integral part of our daily lives. It impacts everything from personalized recommendations on shopping and streaming sites to protecting our inboxes from the onslaught of spam we get every day. But it’s not purely a tool for our convenience. Machine learning has become crucial in the current tech landscape, and that doesn’t look like it’ll change any time soon. It’s used to unlock hidden insights in data, automate tasks and processes, enhance decision-making, and push the boundaries of innovation. At the core of this technolog ..read more

In the complex world of microservices and distributed systems, achieving transparency and understanding the intricacies and inefficiencies of service interactions and request flows has become a paramount challenge. Distributed tracing is essential in understanding distributed systems. But distributed tracing, whether manually applied or auto-instrumented, is usually rather coarse-grained. Hence, distributed tracing covers only a limited fraction of the system and can easily miss parts of the system that are the most useful to trace. Addressing this gap, Elastic developed the concept of inferre ..read more

In the ever-changing and fast-paced world of technology, developers often serve as our North Star — they're adept at conveying a complex vision, bringing innovative applications to life, and influencing the adoption of various technologies. One impactful approach for developers to enhance their influence and contribute to the growth of the tech ecosystem is by joining ambassador programs, such as the Elastic Contributor Program. We already know how awesome you think it is to be a top contributor, but here are three more compelling reasons why developers should join our program. 1. Amplifying y ..read more

On paper, Sylvie Lohier has achieved remarkable growth at Elastic, the leading platform for search-powered solutions. In four years, she’s grown from consulting manager to consulting practice director for the Asia Pacific and Japan region — via four promotions. However, her story is defined by something other than new job titles or raises. “Achieving a promotion is not an end goal,” says Sylvie. “It’s your mindset and attitude to work that are key to driving your growth.” With each new responsibility handed her way, Sylvie leaned into how she could create the biggest impact and further Elas ..read more

If you grew up in a time before the internet made its debut, you’ll remember it wasn’t always easy to find new things to like. We discovered new bands when we happened to hear them on the radio, we’d see a new TV show by accident because we forgot to change the channel, and we’d find a new favorite video game based almost entirely on the picture on the cover.  Nowadays, things are very different. Spotify will point me to artists that match my tastes, Netflix will highlight movies and TV shows it knows we’ll enjoy, and Xbox knows what we’ll probably want to play next. These recommendation ..read more

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Maintaining sovereignty over sensitive workloads is paramount, especially in industries like public sector and telecommunications. Combining this need with cloud adoption and the innovation acceleration it provides is not always an easy path. Thus, sovereign cloud solutions, ensuring data residency, regulatory compliance, and security become indispensable for organizations dealing with highly sensitive data. With data sovereignty, organizations retain control over their data, mitigating risks associated with data breaches, regulatory noncompliance, and geopolitical considerations. Elastic prio ..read more

It’s vital to have a common understanding and shared context for complex technical topics. The previously adopted perimeter model of security has become outdated and inadequate. Zero Trust (ZT) is the current security model being designed and deployed across the US federal government. It’s important to point out that ZT is not a security solution itself. Instead, it’s a security methodology and framework that assumes threats exist both inside and outside of an environment.  The ZT security model has two parts: Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). ZTA focuses ..read more

As AI continues to grow and solve problems across countless industries, a key part of that tech is the ability to seamlessly bridge the gap between human language and machine understanding. This is where natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) come in. They provide distinct and specialized approaches for connecting the power of human communication with software and machines. Or in simpler terms, NLP and LLMs enable us to have human-like conversations with software. NLP is the translator, analyzing and manipulating human language based on defined rules and structures ..read more

In version 8.12, we introduced performance presets — a simpler way to tune Elastic Agent and Beats for a variety of scenarios. This improved performance for common environments without the fine-tuning that was often required in the past.  Starting with version 8.13, we focused on improving our internal libraries to better support these presets. The result was a rewrite of our internal event queue that brings reduced memory usage to all Beats. In our internal benchmark suite, Filebeat 8.13 showed memory reductions of about 20% on all presets. In this post we'll look at how we achieved that ..read more