Discovery/Status updates/2017-07-03

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-07-03

Search

 * Created a method for the Kafka consumer to take 'learn to rank' queries from a queue and run them against ElasticSearch to generate relevance labels
 * Added in the ability to use kafka in our LTRank feature generation queries and pushing them into ElasticSearch for analysis
 * Added ability to extract TF and IDF based features in the ElasticSearch 'learning to rank' plugin
 * A/B test still in progress 'explore similar' links, but we're running into a few bugs that will be sorted out next week
 * Fixed a bug where searching for phrase queries did not highlight page content

Analysis

 * Fixed a bug with the sister project snippets and eventlogging
 * Finished up analysis for determining what is a reasonable per-IP ratelimit for maps
 * Fixed a minor dashboard bug (splines)

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