Break Free from Vendor Lock-in

Open Search gives you complete control over your search infrastructure. No more being trapped by expensive licensing fees or vendor restrictions. Own your search stack and scale it your way.

Build Production-Ready Search Solutions

Learn the practical skills to design, implement, and optimize search engines that power real-world applications. From indexing to advanced queries, you'll master every aspect of Open Search.

Join a Growing Community of Engineers

Become part of the thriving Open Search ecosystem. Connect with thousands of developers, share solutions, and stay ahead of the curve with continuous updates and improvements.

About This Course

Open Search is transforming how organizations manage their search infrastructure—but many teams are still struggling with the learning curve. This course is designed for developers, engineers, and technical leaders who want to harness the full power of Open Search without the vendor lock-in headaches. You'll go from fundamentals to advanced techniques, learning how to architect scalable search solutions that actually work. Whether you're migrating from Elasticsearch, building search from scratch, or optimizing existing systems, this course gives you the hands-on knowledge to succeed. By the end, you'll understand indexing strategies, query optimization, cluster management, and real-world best practices—all the skills you need to confidently deploy Open Search in production environments.

Meet Your Instructor

I've spent years in the trenches building and scaling search infrastructure for enterprise applications. I've seen teams waste thousands on vendor lock-in and proprietary solutions, only to discover they could have had more control and flexibility with Open Search. That's why I created this course—to share the practical knowledge that took me years to master, so you can avoid the same pitfalls and succeed faster. My mission is simple: empower engineers like you to take ownership of your search infrastructure and build solutions that truly scale.

What You'll Learn

13 Chapters · 81 Lessons

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      Welcome

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      What is Open Search?

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      What odour will we be using?

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      Who is this aimed at?

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      What is Human Scent?

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      How human scent moves

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      What effects scent

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      Time scales

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      How the dog will use the scent

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      Trail scent and fresh scent

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      Coning

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      Air scent

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      Contamination

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      Body language

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      Introduction

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      How the Dogs Nose is Structured

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      Sniffing

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      Jacobson Organ

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      Olfactory Epithelium

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      Olfactory Cells

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      Cilia

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      Ethmoid Bone

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      Bowmans Gland

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      Comparison to Humans

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      Alternating

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      Odour issues

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      Chemicals

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      Adaptive Behaviour

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      Locations

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      Class sizes

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      Opening your classes

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      Opening your workshops, mini immersion.

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      Equipment

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      Welcome

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      Structuring your class

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      Coaching your clients

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      What, Why, How

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      Ex1. Straight leg

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      Ex1 Practical example

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      Ex1 Practical example longer length

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      Ex2. Straight leg turning the dog

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      Ex2 practical example

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      Ex3. Straight leg person laying

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      Ex3 practical example

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      Ex4. Straight leg no trail

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      Ex4 practical example

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      Ex4 practical example

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      Ex5. Search area 1

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      Ex6. Search area 2

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      Ex6 practical example

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      Ex7. Search area 3

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      Ex7 practical example

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      Ex8. Search area, 4

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      Ex8 Practical example

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      Ex9. Search area, 5

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      Ex9 practical example

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      Ex10 Search area. 6

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      Ex11 Larger search area

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      Ex10 Practical example

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      The indication

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      Ex12. The Bark Indication. Teaching the Bark

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      Ex13. The Bark Indication. Straight leg Bark

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      Ex14. The Bark Indication. Straight leg Bark mp down

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      Ex15. The Bark Indication. Search area Bark mp down

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      Ex16. The Bark Indication. Search area Bark mp down duration

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      Ex17. The Shuttle Indication. Straight leg rewards

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      Ex18. The Shuttle Indication. Straight rewards every othermp

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      Ex19. The Shuttle Indication. Straight rewards every other

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      Ex20. The Shuttle Indication. Straight rewards duration

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      Ex21 The Shuttle Indication. Straight rewards duration down

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      Ex22 The Shuttle Indication. Repeat in square

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      Ex.23 Four search areas mp in 2nd

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      Ex.24 Four search areas mp in 3rd

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      Ex.25 Four search areas mp in 4th

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      Ex26 Directional searching, searching for longer

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      Ex.27 Bring in indication

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      Ex28. Two strips mp in half way

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      Ex29. Two strips mp further along

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      Ex30 Bring in indication

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      Ex31 Bringing everything together

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      The Assessement

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