“Searching and Sorting”, made simpler with ElasticSearch and RESTful APIs

Weiyuan
7 min readMay 2, 2021
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“Searching” is a classic problem that many web applications face.

Look at any e-commerce site — to find what you want from their vast catalog of products, you can run a search on related keywords. Or social websites like Facebook and Reddit — search serves as an entry point to find relevant content like users, threads, and so on.

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Weiyuan

Senior Engineering Manager, Ascenda Loyalty | Former Engineering Manager, Grab | Former Director of Engineering, ZilLearn | bit.ly/weiyuan