How to build Google Search, for your data center

Sudarshan Muralidhar
6 min readNov 6, 2020

Search 101: a scalable file index

This article is part of a series about building Igneous DataDiscover, a searchable file index. Click Here for the overview.

Go to the first post in this series for an overview of this diagram

We’ve come a long way since we first started this series! First, we pulled data from your storage device onto a VM in your datacenter. Then, the VM packaged this data and wrote

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Sudarshan Muralidhar

Lead engineer at MongoDB. Cofounder of Upbeat Music App. I do cloud things.