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Code search is hard


Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard

However, the previous projects I’ve used FTS for have run into performance problems and struggled to scale - Observable ended up moving to Elasticsearch. We’re not excited to start learning about Java memory tuning and to introduce the first persistent disk storage to our application, as well as an additional source of truth for our data. For a small team, with an incentive to keep infrastructure simple, development environments easy to set up, and data in the same place, we’re trying to be careful not to commit to something that requires constant upkeep.

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