Chapter 17 — Distributed Search Engine (Elasticsearch-like)
Chapter of Breadth & Capacity Planning, part of System Design.
Purpose
Inverted indexes, sharding, near-real-time indexing.
[stub: distributed-search-engine]— fill this in. Greppable doc-debt marker.
Metadata
| Dimension | Detail |
|---|---|
| Author | Amit Singh |
| Scope | MAANG interview preparation — not production documentation |
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Related notes
Chapter 4 — Distributed Tracing Backend
Trace assembly from spans, tail-based vs. head-based sampling.
Chapter 8 — Distributed Message Queue (Kafka-like)
Partitioning, consumer groups, at-least-once vs. exactly-once.
Chapter 11 — Rate Limiter (Distributed)
Token bucket, leaky bucket, sliding window, Redis-backed global limiter.
Chapter 10 — Stream Processing System (Flink-like)
Watermarks, windowing, stateful operators, exactly-once.