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Evolving with Elastic: GetSet Learning

Elasticsearch enabled productive collaboration between product and engineering teams at GetSet Learning. It allowed them to quickly prototype and build key features like recommended tags, feeds, and products. Some lessons learned were that Elasticsearch provided a unified search framework, tools for syncing processes between teams, and hosted services through Elastic Cloud. These factors facilitated efficient collaboration between teams.

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1 Evolving With Elastic Ray Myers and Eric Bjerstedt GetSet Learning
2 Who we are Ray Myers Lead SRE @ Morningstar Former Chief Engineer @ GetSet Eric Bjerstedt VP Product @ GetSet
3 Background: About GetSet GetSet is a private social network for colleges and universities. Students use GetSet to meet classmates, share tips, and get questions answered. Schools use GetSet for analytics and course discussions.
4 Act I_ The Early Days
5 GetSet "Orientation" GetSet started as a linear series of student "stories." Our vision: build a community around sharing these stories.
6 From "Orientation" to "Community" How do we build a community around these stories? Enter Elasticsearch.
77 Stemming sparked collaboration Very quickly, we realized the limitations of simple text search and introduced stemming, which was an inflection point in our collaboration. waited waiting waits waited
8 Act II_ The Recommending
9 Recommended tags We used Elasticsearch's "More like this" function to recommend tags that had been used on similar posts. Our experience building that feature led to bigger ideas.
10 Recommended feed We used Elasticsearch's "More like this" function to recommend tags that had been used on similar posts. Two months later, we released a major update, including a new Home page, featuring a feed of recommended posts.
11 Act III_ Not as Hard as You Think
12 Influence Influence sends personalized "microinterventions." We rapidly prototyped it using Elasticsearch for recommendations. It's now a highly profitable product, with very few changes from that prototype.
13 Analytics
14 Lessons Learned_
15 Lessons learned Elasticsearch enabled extremely productive collaboration between product and engineering. Here are some behind the scenes things that made that possible: ● Unified search framework ● Sync process ● Elastic Cloud
16 Questions_