You Don't Need Elasticsearch

Full-text search is not a PostgreSQL extension. It is PostgreSQL.

The capability has been in your database this entire time. It simply never introduced itself.

Running a distributed cluster for a dataset that fits comfortably on a single server is not scaling. It is overengineering.

A search that requires exact spelling is not a search. It is a spelling test.

The most sophisticated architecture is the one that uses exactly what it needs and nothing more.

I confess I find something deeply reassuring about an algorithm that has outlasted every technology trend of the past century and shows no signs of retiring.

A recommendation that includes only benefits is not a recommendation. It is a sales pitch.

No one is asking you to leap. I am asking you to walk, at your own pace, with the ability to turn back at any point.

I would rather you know this now, from me, than discover it during implementation from a stack trace.

It has been my privilege to attend to you.