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Understanding customers using their search queries – Podcast

Imagine you want to buy something. You go to bol.com and you start typing the article in the search bar. Automatically you will be served suggestions and as a result, you want a limited number of articles from our 30 million products catalogue. You select the product you want, press the buy button and there it is, at your doorstep at the selected moment. Sounds simple, right? Inspired by a talk of our guest of this episode earlier this year, we wanted to find out what’s behind the search bar.…

Understanding customers using their search queries – Podcast

Using Elasticsearch as the Primary Data Store

Volkan Yazici, on 3-12-2018
Category: Development Tags: Java elasticsearch search etl

The biggest e-commerce company in the Netherlands and Belgium, bol.com, set out on a 4 year journey to rethink and rebuild their entire ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline, that has been cooking up the data used by its search engine since the dawn of time.