Full-Text Search with Elasticsearch
Drove the migration from MySQL/Mongo search to Elasticsearch and wrote a custom DSL package that integrated cleanly with Django + MongoEngine models.
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Overview
Search was running against MySQL/Mongo and hitting its limits. I drove the move to Elasticsearch for full-text search.
What I did
- Migrated search workloads from MySQL/Mongo to Elasticsearch.
- Wrote a custom DSL package that worked naturally with Django + MongoEngine models, so developers could build queries in familiar terms rather than hand-writing Elasticsearch JSON.
Impact
Faster, more relevant search and a query API that fit the existing codebase, lowering the barrier for teams to add search to their features.
