How I Reindex Elasticsearch Without Downtime

Jonathan Seow
Better Programming
Published in
8 min readFeb 7, 2022

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Elasticsearch (ES) is a powerful, flexible, and scalable search engine. It stores data as key-value pairs in a document. It groups many documents to form an index. Under the hood, ES uses an inverted index data structure, which allows us to query documents by the fields they contain.

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