System Design: The Distributed Search
Learn about how a search system works and understand our high-level plan for designing a distributed search system.
Why do we need a search system?
Nowadays, we see a search bar on almost every website. We use that search bar to pick out relevant content from the enormous amount of content available on that website. A search bar enables us to quickly find what we’re looking for. For example, there are plenty of courses present on the Educative website. If we didn’t have a search feature, users would have to scroll through many pages and read the name of each course to find the one they’re looking for.