These are slides from my presentation to the Grails Cafe Centro meetup in San Francisco on Aug 16th 2011. Most of the session was practical, so the slides are brief and are mostly useful for the links they contain.

1. Adding High Performance Search to your Grails App Adam @Creeger API Architect,Ticketfly http://acree.gr Grails Cafe Centro Meetup, Aug 16th 2011 San Francisco, CA

6. Hands on: Installing and Using ElasticSearch What you'll need: http://acree.gr/installing-es http://acree.gr/elasticsearch-head A unique ElasticSearch cluster name

7. Demo: Adding ElasticSearch to a Grails Application What you'll see: Installing the Grails plugin (a custom fork for now) Implement basic, but useful search

8. Demo: Making our Search more useful What you'll see: The power of the query string ElasticSearch's Groovy API Geo searching

9. Demo: Performance What you'll see: Bulk Indexing The performance of ElasticSearch compared with MySQL/GORM

10. Hands on: Using ES in the Cloud (kind of) What you'll need: The ElasticSearch installation you created earlier All be on the same network The same cluster name! Web App needs correct config: elasticSearch.cluster.name

14. Thank you! Adam @Creeger API Architect,Ticketfly http://acree.gr