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Day 52: Building Lightning-Fast Log Search with Inverted Indexing

Day 52: Building Lightning-Fast Log Search with Inverted Indexing

254-Day Hands-On System Design Series | Module 2: Scalable Log Processing | Week 8: Distributed Log Search

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Today's Learning Agenda

What We're Learning:

  • High-performance inverted index with specialized log tokenization

  • RESTful search API achieving sub-100ms response times

  • React-based search interface with real-time suggestions

  • Production-ready system handling 1000+ documents/second

Key Concepts Covered:

  • Inverted index architecture and TF-IDF scoring

  • Log-specific tokenization patterns for technical terms

  • Real-time indexing with concurrent search operations

  • Performance optimization and persistence strategies

Integration Context:

  • Builds on Day 51's analytics dashboards with search capabilities

  • Prepares foundation for Day 53's distributed indexing across nodes

  • Completes the search layer of our distributed log processing system


The Search Speed Challenge

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