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Does anyone know their tech stack? I assume it's just a giant elasticsearch cluster.

• jerska 9y ago
  Custom-made C++ engine - baked into an nginx plugin - no elasticsearch nor lucene in the stack, except to gather analytics on the side. It has been made to solve user-facing search only, where elasticsearch couldn't meet the same speed because it's trying to solve a lot of other things.
  • dzello 9y ago
    More information about the tech stack here - https://stackshare.io/algolia/how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-21b-searches-per-month https://stackshare.io/algolia/how-algolia-reduces-latency-fo...
  • aphextron 9y ago
    Cool, thanks. Good to know they've got some special sauce.