What Do You Mean I Can’t Google It? - Search for Microservices
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Google is an amazing tool, and let’s be honest, it has helped to build most of the software you’ve ever worked on. But when you are able to look up “that basketball dog movie” or “111th element” without having to recall cheesy 90s movie titles or knowing how to spell Roentgenium - people’s expectation of search go up.
But replicating search functionality for your own uses or users isn’t that simple, especially with microservices. Trying to retrieve data from multiple tables - never mind different databases or clusters – can easily balloon in complexity and load on your system.
That’s why Landbay built their own search microservice. Using Elasticsearch, custom indices, and event-driven messaging design patterns, a separate search microservice provides fast and flexible access to data across the whole platform. Searches happen in near-realtime, the frontend is able to dynamically generate search tables, control is centralized in configurations to make creating new searches a breeze, and you can completely re-index the system without any disruption to users.
Of course, the end result isn’t exactly the same as Google, but it definitely beats using complex search query boiler plate. Or Bing.
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What Do You Mean I Can’t Google It? - Search for Microservices
Heather Whyte
Heather is a software engineer who spends her days working on Java, microservices, and all the backend tools that help put them together. After years studying finance and working in operations around the world, she is currently focused on growing and improving the distributed microservice system at Landbay, a peer-to-peer FinTech start-up here in London.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
Google is an amazing tool, and let’s be honest, it has helped to build most of the software you’ve ever worked on. But when you are able to look up “that basketball dog movie” or “111th element” without having to recall cheesy 90s movie titles or knowing how to spell Roentgenium - people’s expectation of search go up.
But replicating search functionality for your own uses or users isn’t that simple, especially with microservices. Trying to retrieve data from multiple tables - never mind different databases or clusters – can easily balloon in complexity and load on your system.
That’s why Landbay built their own search microservice. Using Elasticsearch, custom indices, and event-driven messaging design patterns, a separate search microservice provides fast and flexible access to data across the whole platform. Searches happen in near-realtime, the frontend is able to dynamically generate search tables, control is centralized in configurations to make creating new searches a breeze, and you can completely re-index the system without any disruption to users.
Of course, the end result isn’t exactly the same as Google, but it definitely beats using complex search query boiler plate. Or Bing.
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:
- Lightning Talk: Independent Services, Throw Your Hands Up At Me (SkillsCast recorded in May 2019)
- Elasticsearch for Developers with Itamar Syn-Hershko (in London on 16th - 18th December 2019)
- CloudNative London 2019 (in London on 25th - 27th September 2019)
- Keynote Evening by Brian Ketelsen! (in London on 17th October 2019)
- Functional Concurrency in .NET with C# and F# (in London on 9th - 10th September 2019)
- Software Architecture for Developers Workshop (in London on 9th - 10th September 2019)
- ProgNET London 2019 (in London on 11th - 13th September 2019)
- XP as we would do it today (in London on 27th August 2019)
- Keynote by Iris Classon on .NET Core and More: 30 Things You Should Know (in London on 28th August 2019)
- How To Avoid Abrupt Climate Change (SkillsCast recorded in August 2019)
- Domain Driven Design in Practice with Helin Ece Akgul (SkillsCast recorded in August 2019)
Thanks to our sponsors
What Do You Mean I Can’t Google It? - Search for Microservices
Heather Whyte
Heather is a software engineer who spends her days working on Java, microservices, and all the backend tools that help put them together. After years studying finance and working in operations around the world, she is currently focused on growing and improving the distributed microservice system at Landbay, a peer-to-peer FinTech start-up here in London.