https://mehmetbarispolat.dev/blog/ Software posts are field notes on the systems I run every day: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, RabbitMQ. What broke, what I changed, and the numbers before and after. Music posts are about guitar, gear and playing live. en https://mehmetbarispolat.dev/blog/elasticsearch-shard-balancing/ https://mehmetbarispolat.dev/blog/elasticsearch-shard-balancing/ How Elasticsearch decides where shards live, why an uneven spread of primaries matters less than it looks, and the settings I reach for when one node runs hotter than the rest. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Software Elasticsearch