Good job on picking Algolia. Elasticsearch under the covers I believe. I'm recently designing the architecture for a client's website and recommended Algolia to them it's a neat product and saves you having to roll your own lucene engine. I particularly liked the automated indexing of your site if you are willing to pay a little for it.
Thanks for recommending Algolia ImTheDeveloper! If you don't mind, I'll ping you on twitter about sending you a t-shirt :)
In fact, Algolia is new search technology built from scratch, not based on Lucene or Elasticsearch. If you want to read about the design of our engine, I recommend the "Inside the Algolia Engine" series written by our CTO. Here's a link to the first part: blog.algolia.com/inside-the-algoli...
Just had a read through the blog post including some of the previous ones. Great descriptions and really bring to life all of the design decisions that had to be made. Brave usage of Zookeeper, I know it sometimes can be met with gasps due to being a bit tough to configure and manage but it appears to fit the use case well.
Good information on nginx and using redis for counters. I've used a similar architecture in the past and the key/value store is perfect. Is there any further details on the search algorithms themselves? The blogs elude to the applications being written in pure C for speed and also that there are some specialist techniques used for relevance and the like.
I've asked a few of the team who are closer to the engine about the algorithms used. I'll post back the response. Also, there will be more posts in the Inside the Engine series next year, so stay tuned! :)
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Good job on picking Algolia. Elasticsearch under the covers I believe. I'm recently designing the architecture for a client's website and recommended Algolia to them it's a neat product and saves you having to roll your own lucene engine. I particularly liked the automated indexing of your site if you are willing to pay a little for it.
Thanks for recommending Algolia ImTheDeveloper! If you don't mind, I'll ping you on twitter about sending you a t-shirt :)
In fact, Algolia is new search technology built from scratch, not based on Lucene or Elasticsearch. If you want to read about the design of our engine, I recommend the "Inside the Algolia Engine" series written by our CTO. Here's a link to the first part: blog.algolia.com/inside-the-algoli...
Just had a read through the blog post including some of the previous ones. Great descriptions and really bring to life all of the design decisions that had to be made. Brave usage of Zookeeper, I know it sometimes can be met with gasps due to being a bit tough to configure and manage but it appears to fit the use case well.
Good information on nginx and using redis for counters. I've used a similar architecture in the past and the key/value store is perfect. Is there any further details on the search algorithms themselves? The blogs elude to the applications being written in pure C for speed and also that there are some specialist techniques used for relevance and the like.
I've asked a few of the team who are closer to the engine about the algorithms used. I'll post back the response. Also, there will be more posts in the Inside the Engine series next year, so stay tuned! :)