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Search Engines: Elasticsearch Architecture Explained

Search Engines: Elasticsearch Architecture Explained

Article #33 of System Design Roadmap series, Part II: Data Storage

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May 15, 2025
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Last week, a senior developer reached out after his team's search functionality collapsed under a mere 5,000 concurrent users. "We just implemented Elasticsearch exactly as the quickstart guide showed," he lamented. Like many engineers, he had treated this powerful distributed search engine as a simple plug-and-play component. This common misconception leads to production failures that could have been prevented with deeper architectural understanding.

Today, we're peeling back the layers of Elasticsearch to reveal the architectural decisions that allow it to efficiently handle billions of documents and thousands of queries per second in production systems.

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