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Bonsai Blog
Company blog · bonsai.io/blog · on HN as nzadroznyprogrammingdata
Bonsai Blog is the company blog at bonsai.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Float Bloat”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link to Bonsai as a hosted Elasticsearch option, not to its blog posts. The blog covers managed Elasticsearch and OpenSearch hosting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bonsai keeps your search evergreen with expert deployment, ongoing maintenance, and maximum data security for Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
Most-linked posts?
- Float Bloat2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-27
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-15
What Hacker News says?
Here's a few more to add to your list (not all SaaS)... --ANALYTICS Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) Segment.io ( http://segment.io ) --CRM Close.io ( http://close.io ), Streak ( http://www.streak.com/ ) Base ( http://getbase.com ) --SALES ElasticSales ( https://elasticsales.com/ ) --CUSTOMER SERVICE Metaverse Mod Squad ( http://metaversemodsquad.com/ ) --DATA Factual ( http://www.factual.com/ ) --D…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted Agentic Search Models with OpenSearch and Elasticsearch as a story · 8 points
HN discussionwe're happy with http://bonsai.io , which in my experience has really good support.
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on “AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering”Submitted How to Do Autocomplete as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou seem to like IndexTank ;) There's also my own http://websolr.com/ running Apache Solr. Some other Solr services are mentioned elsewhere on the page. I've also recently launched http://bonsai.io/ for a hosted ElasticSearch service. Because ElasticSearch is actually quite awesome (and I'm happy to answer questions about why). For Sphinx, there's Flying Sphinx (by Pat Allen of Thinking Sphinx Ruby client fame, grea…
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on “Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month”Submitted How to Test Elasticsearch as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere are hosted services for Solr and ElasticSearch, too. Such as fizx's and my own http://websolr.com and http://bonsai.io
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on “Features of Solr vs. ElasticSearch”Submitted Claude Code Release Pulse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor most teams, I definitely recommend getting started with a hosted elasticsearch option initially, and after validating a POC, only then consider a move to self-managed. Check out https://bonsai.io as a hosted option... I've helped a bunch of financial and security companies implement and deploy elk as a critical infra component. Generally I'm seeing it used to complement Splunk, Alienvault and other log/network/s…
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on “Working with the ELK stack”Submitted Bonsai: Hosted ElasticSearch for Heroku/AWS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Float Bloat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why improving your search feature always feels difficult as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bonsai.io October 2013 outage post-mortem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pink Elephant in Your Prompt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Float Bloat: vector serialization gone wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Design Search for a Database as a story · 1 points
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