How teams scaled Elasticsearch: 2 real case studies
2 of the 73 engineering write-ups in our database mention Elasticsearch in their stack. They come from 2 companies (Discord and Stack Overflow) and were published between 2016 and 2017. 1 of the 2 state concrete scale numbers, for example "billions of messages" (Discord). Each card below links to our short summary and the original post.
Discord · 2017
How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages
Discord built message search on many small Elasticsearch clusters, sharding by guild and indexing lazily through a queue.
Stack Overflow · 2016
Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition
A tour of how Stack Overflow serves a huge site from a small number of powerful servers with heavy caching.
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