Hands On System Design - Distributed Systems Implementation

Hands On System Design - Distributed Systems Implementation

Day 58: Building a Production-Grade Search API for Log Data

Transforming Search Capabilities into Programmatic Powerhouse 254-Day Hands-On System Design Series - Module 2: Scalable Log Processing | Week 8: Distributed Log Search

Jul 08, 2025
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🎯 What We're Building Today

Today we transform your Day 57 search engine into a robust RESTful API that external systems can consume programmatically:

  • RESTful search endpoints with comprehensive query parameter parsing

  • JWT authentication & authorization with token refresh capabilities

  • Intelligent rate limiting using Redis token bucket algorithms

  • Response streaming for large result sets with cursor-based pagination

  • Interactive API documentation with OpenAPI/Swagger integration

  • React frontend interface with Google Cloud-inspired design

  • Client SDKs for popular programming languages

  • Production deployment with Docker orchestration

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