Stability and scalability for search
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Stability and scalability for search
- Scalability is crucial - systems need to be designed with the assumption that query volume, document corpus size, indexing complexity etc. could increase by 10x. What works at one scale may completely break at a higher scale.
- Sharding the index, either by document or by word, is important to distribute the indexing and querying load across machines.