Revise · W07 · Day 4Typeahead at Scale: Autocomplete, Spelling and Facets
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Typeahead multiplies traffic
One request per keystroke: a search is ~12 requests. The store's ~2,800 searches a second at peak become ~33,000 typeahead requests, so typeahead is its own cheap system, not prefix queries on the search cluster.
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