As part of a system refactoring process, we replaced a legacy search system with Elasticsearch. Being a core component of our system it literally took us more than half a year to move to the new system and make all the features work again, and it required us being absolutely sure of Elasticsearch's ...

In my last post in the series I gave an introduction to search engines. I showed the concept of an Inverted Index and how it helps with performing searches on large amounts of texts quickly and efficiently. In this post I'll be discussing the issue of scaling out a search engine.

We chose Apache Luc...

A couple of months ago I was about to start blogging about the work we did in Buzzilla the past couple of months. A few days after posting about the planned series, things got hectic and I had to let that go for a while. Now that things are a bit calmer I can finally attend to writing the series.

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A couple of months ago I started working at Buzzilla, a company developing "cutting edge technologies and revolutionary analysis and research methodologies that combine to create advanced solutions aimed at harnessing the vast opportunities presented by online conversation". Or in short, full-text s...