David Corona - Developer on today.com team @davesters
Trent Swanson - FullScale 180 (Azure Consulting Co) Logstash is the filter of data from where it comes from to Elasticsearch Elasticsearch can index mongodb, but more and more they are just putting the data into ES elasticsearch npm module - easy queries elk stack easy to load on laptop
Joe Ellsworth - Bayes Analytic
Any sort of geo data is great in Elasticsearch You can either use es as a search front end for mongo or a datastore all together ASCII Journal of all data is an interesting idea for a backup Elasticsearch plugin called marvel, a tool called sense as well jq - tool for command line on doing json handling Definitive guide for elasticsearch - new book on es The guide on the es site is the best resource