Elasticsearch Workshop @ UT Austin

Hey CS/ECE Students!

Looking for another awesome technology to use in your hackathon projects? Interested in some hands-on, guided learning with real software engineers? Want some free food??

If so, you’re in luck. Workday is hosting an Elasticsearch workshop just for you!

What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a powerful open-source search engine that is widely used in the tech industry. It has gained momentum quickly due to its easy-to-use REST API, distributed nature, and full-text search capabilities.

The world around us is full of data - whether you’re interested in a career in startups, large-scale tech, or just enjoy learning new things, Elasticsearch is a great technology to be familiar with. ES is utilized by companies such as Facebook, Soundcloud, Github, and many more to bring intelligent search to their products.

During this workshop, we’ll teach you the basics of ES and introduce you to some tools that make working with it super easy. You’ll also get a chance to meet fellow interns from other companies, as well as learn about how we use Elasticsearch at Workday!

What you’ll learn:

1. Search engine basics

2. How to use Elasticsearch

3. Working with HTTP / REST APIs

4. Tools for ES development

Schedule:

• 12:00 - 12:05: Arrive, grab food, hang out

• 12:05 - 12:20: Intros, What is Elasticsearch?

• 12:20 - 12:50: Basic ES Commands

• 12:50 - 1:50  : Building a product with Elasticsearch

• 1:50 - 2:00    : Wrap-up, Q&A

What to bring:

1. Your own computer (& perhaps charger)

2. Excitement for learning something new

3. A hungry stomach :)

Who's invited?

Any student who has experience writing software (including graduate students!). The more experience, the better, as we may not be able to help everyone debug their code on a 1-to-1 basis if there are a lot of attendees. If you're curious what sort of technical material will be covered, please take a look at the workshop code (especially the README) at https://github.com/bojdell/es-workshop.

Before the workshop:

1. Be sure to have Git installed (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)

2. Have a lightweight text editor available (we recommend Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/3, but vim is cool too)

3. Be comfortable navigating your terminal of choice (ideally POSIX)

The code for the workshop is hosted here: https://github.com/bojdell/es-workshop

Please Note: this workshop is for students only!