Building a Search Engine: From Thorns to Stars
summary
Covers principles of building search systems and compares different search engines, then shows the steps to build a search system using ElasticSearch. Discusses content indexing, practical pitfalls and corner cases, and addresses real-time search scenarios, DataRetention and ongoing search-speed optimization.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:05Old search problems
- 5:19Choosing Elasticsearch
- 7:51First mistakes
- 11:04Failure analysis
- 13:35Index optimization
- 18:19Segmentation fixes
- 21:10Monitoring
- 25:24Current cluster
- 26:31Results
- 27:55Lessons learned
- 33:12Q&A
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