Learning Materials

A guide on preparing for system design interviews using a proven three-step framework: observe experts, practice yourself, and seek feedback.

Learn how inverted indexes enable fast full-text search across millions of documents, powering search engines like Elasticsearch and Solr.

Why search needs its own service and infrastructure when it's central to your product. Real-world lessons from building search systems at Amazon scale.

A quick reference guide to the key pillars of keeping your search index in sync with your primary database at scale.

Learn how to use Change Data Capture (CDC) to keep your search index reliably synchronized with your database at scale. Covers baseline architecture, consistency, and resilience patterns.

Covers reconciliation strategies, bootstrapping your search index with existing data, and modern managed solutions for CDC-based search synchronization.