Category Archives: sphinx

Speaking at OpenWest 2014 Conference: real-time search infrastructure architecture at craigslist

Posted on April 2, 2014 by

Just a quick heads-up that I’ll be giving a 50 minute talk at OpenWest in Utah on Thursday, May 8th. The talk is titled real-time search infrastructure architecture at craigslist and is completely new. We’ve recently completed the 3 major … Continue reading →

Posted in craigslist, sphinx | 1 Comment

Seeking Sucks: Spoiled by SSDs

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

I’m in the process of rebuilding full-text indexes for a good sized document collection that lives in a sharded MongoDB cluster. And the funny thing about this is that I don’t really use MongoDB that much. I mean we put … Continue reading →

Posted in craigslist, mongodb, nosql, sphinx, tech | 10 Comments

Experimenting with Real-Time Search using Sphinx

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

In the last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with using real-time indexes in Sphinx to allow full-text searching of data recently added to craigslist. While this posting is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to what I’ve implemented (that … Continue reading →

Posted in craigslist, sphinx, tech | 12 Comments