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Search API
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CAREER PROJECT · Advanced · 2 weekends
Search + Indexing Service
Create indexed search with ranking, filters, background indexing and relevance evaluation.
SearchIndexingQueuesAPI designEvaluation
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Index pipeline
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Relevance cases
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Latency report
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Architecture diagram
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
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Built a searchable indexing service with asynchronous ingestion, filtering and measured relevance/latency tradeoffs.
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STRETCH GOALS
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Hybrid search
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Typo tolerance
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Query analytics
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