The Elasticast

In the news, the Elastic Stack 7.3 is out with a ton of new features! We sit and interview Greg Paskal of Ramsey solutions about how The Elastic Stack has helped them find more meaning and value in their automated testing. For even more resources on Test Automation and the 7.3 release, visit the full show notes at https://theelasticast.com/episodes/0017-qa/

The Elastic stack is built with distribution in mind, isn't it time we started being more Kubernetes friendly? This episode, Peter Brachwitz and Anurag Gupta join us and dive into the brand new Elastic Stack operator for Kubernetes in our Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes product. Tune in for all the details or jump right into the code on our GitHub repo at https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s. In the news: Homebrew, RDB synching, and TLS integration.

It's been a while, but Aaron and Mike are back and producing even more Elasticast. This episode they cover the hugeness that is the Elastic Stack 7.0 release, Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.2.x, a new beta release for App Search On Premises, and catch you up to the big news of licensing changes for security features. That is: more security features made free to use for both 7.x and 6.x stack users. We also tease at the brand new Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes! Stay tuned for more updates.

In the news; Elastic Support helps you mitigate the 'runc' vulnerability in ECE environments, a minor version is released with several bug and security fixes, and the Elasticsearch Service Private Subscription is now available in our Cloud services. Aaron chats with Chloe Condon (@chloecondon), Microsoft Cloud Advocate; Jono Bacon (@jonobacon), consultant and community leader; and Mary Thengvall (@marygrace), Persea Consulting and author of "The Business Value of Developer Relations" about the state of Developer Relations. Listen to find out what community means to them and what it is we do and the value that provides for both the community members and the companies that employ them. Links and additional notes found at https://theelasticast.com/episodes/0014-community/

In the news; Elastic Common Schema, 7.0.0-beta1, .Net APM clients, Go clients, oh my! Aaron talks with Josh Bressers (@joshbressers) about his unique pastime, ingesting the Bitcoin Ledger into the Elastic Stack and searching for cake recipes. Mike tells us the difference between different Elasticsearch node types. Links and additional notes found at https://theelasticast.com/episodes/0013-bitcoin/

In the news, Elastic Stack v6.6.0 and Elastic Cloud Enterprise v2.1.0 are released with lots of new features. We're no longer listing where we will be upcoming, unless you wanted that, write to theelasticast@elastic.co to let us know. Rachel Rider, of Digital Ocean and MettaWorks.io, joins Rochelle to talk about leadership roles in the world of technology. What mindset changes and skills are important when you start working more on people than your source code? Links and additional notes found at https://theelasticast.com/episodes/0012-leadership/

Beth Hegarty and James Cahill of Elatic's Recruiting team join Nohealani and Aaron to talk about what Elastic Recruiters are thinking about when they're trying to add to our teams. We discuss the the hard parts of the job, the rewarding parts and talk more about Elastic's Source Code. News items involve upcoming minor releases as well as the continued pioneer program for 7.0. Mike answers the Question of the Week about adding capacity to your Elasticsearch cluster. Additional notes and links found at https://theelasticast.com/episodes/0011-recruiting/

Marty Messer, VP of Customer Care, joins Aaron in person in our Mountain View office to talk about how Elastic approaches support. It's an often looked down upon engineering role vital to the success of any company. Marty approaches things backwards, subverts some norms with a "trickle-down happiness" approach to support and customer care. In the news: maintenance releases and pioneer programs. And Mike answers, "Why doesn't Elastic recommend installing on distributed file systems?"

Kristina Paiz, ElastiCares programs manager, joins Rochelle to talk about why she decided to join Elastic to head up the ElastiCares program. We hear about how employees from all over, with all different interests and abilities are empowered to give back as they are able in ways that they care. We talk about donations and volunteer time. Nohealani joins a bit later to about our Source Code. But first, BIG NEWS for quite a big minor release! Mike and Aaron recap the 6.5 release of the Elastic Stack and we answer: what's the difference between a major and minor release in Elastic World anyway?

Christian Saide and Devin Bernosky of NS1 join Aaron and Mike to talk about what NS1 does and how they leverage the Elastic stack to provide data-driven DNS. The latest news regarding Elastic going public and changes to Kibana are mentioned and we answer the question: 'What is an availability zone in the context of Elastic Cloud?'

Audrey Eschright, author of 'The Responsible Communication Style Guide', joins Rochelle to discuss the important role identity has on inclusive communication. We answer the question: 'How many master nodes should I have?'

Mat Schaffer joins us to discuss an open data project he's been working on called Safecast. Mike answers customer question: Can I perform a minor version upgrade on the cloud platform without downtime?

Daniel and Dimitris from the Elastic performance benchmarking team to discuss Elastic benchmarks and the internally developed tool Rally. We attempt to tackle the question of the week: "How many shards should I have?"

Rashid Khan joins Mike and Aaron to discuss the Canvas project in Kibana--a composable, extendable, creative space for live data. Aaron and Mike answer "What is the difference between Beats and Logstash".

Kalpesh Patel joins us to discuss some of the technical details and challenges around the Egnyte platform. Aaron answers "What is a shard", and as always, we've got this week's upcoming community events.

Jonathan Halterman and Peter Brachwitz join us from Elastic to discuss a large release for our managed Cloud Elasticsearch SAAS platform; Mike and Aaron highlight some of the changes for the Elastic Stack 6.4.0 release; and the question of the week covers what managed services Elastic offers

Teaser episode to announce The Elasticast