This book is targeted at Java developers with basic knowledge of Hadoop. No prior Elasticsearch experience is required.

Vishal Shukla is the CEO of Brevitaz Systems (http://brevitaz.com) and a technology evangelist at heart. He is a passionate software scientist and a big data expert. Vishal has extensive experience in designing modular enterprise systems. Since his college days (more than 11 years), Vishal has enjoyed coding in JVM-based languages. He also embraces design thinking and sustainable software development. He has vast experience in architecting enterprise systems in various domains. Vishal is deeply interested in technologies related to big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning. He set up Brevitaz Systems. This company delivers massively scalable and sustainable big data and analytics-based enterprise applications to their global clientele. With varied expertise in big data technologies and architectural acumen, the Brevitaz team successfully developed and re-engineered a number of legacy systems to state-of-the-art scalable systems. Brevitaz has imbibed in its culture agile practices, such as scrum, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery, to deliver high-quality products to its clients. Vishal is a music and art lover. He loves to sing, play musical instruments, draw portraits, and play sports, such as cricket, table tennis, and pool, in his free time. You can contact Vishal at [email protected] and on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/vishalshu. You can also follow Vishal on Twitter at @vishal1shukla2.