Enhancing Search Efficiency with Algolia

An efficient self-hosted vs managed search solution for one of our clients.

Sub-100ms

Search latency

Tuned ranking

Relevance

Fully managed

Maintenance

The Challenge

The client's self-hosted search was slow and required ongoing maintenance effort that pulled the team away from product work.

Evaluated self-hosted (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) vs managed (Algolia) trade-offs against the client's traffic and team size.
Migrated indices and search UX to Algolia with a phased rollout.
Tuned ranking rules, synonyms, and faceting for the client's catalog.
Automated index updates as part of the existing CI/CD pipeline.

Search response times dropped to sub-100ms with far less operational burden, freeing the team to focus on product instead of search infra.

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