# Architecture styles, patterns, documentation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 21, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303 "2018-10-21T21:37:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![15hawai15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b3f665/32.png) [@15hawai15](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/15hawai15)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303/1 "2018-10-21T21:37:47Z")

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Can someone help me, where to find more information and diagrams about elasticsearch architectural styles and patterns ?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303/2 "2018-10-22T09:08:48Z")

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This is an **extremely** broad question. Are you talking about source code, or when running Elasticsearch in production or how to properly design data?

Even though the [definitive guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/index.html) is already pretty old, it teaches all the fundamentals of search, distributed systems really well and is always worth a read.

From a source code perspective there is not too much additional documentation except the source. So if there are special questions, just put them into this forum.

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**Author:** ![15hawai15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b3f665/32.png) [@15hawai15](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/15hawai15)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303/3 "2018-10-22T18:21:46Z")

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I am looking for architecture styles and pattern of elasticsearch source code. Is there any documentation connected with this topic or not ? Or some book ?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303/4 "2018-10-22T21:21:58Z")

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There is no know book to my knowledge. As mentioned in my last reply, asking questions here in the forum might make most sense.

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**Author:** ![15hawai15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b3f665/32.png) [@15hawai15](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/15hawai15)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303/5 "2018-10-23T13:24:51Z")

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In production, ElasticSearch is usualy running on some server. And I, as a client, am getting data. So one of the architectural styles of elastic is client - server ? Am I correct ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/architecture-styles-patterns-documentation/153303/6 "2018-11-20T13:24:53Z")

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