I couldn't touch the database, so I built search next to it

A production system I work on needed a search box that forgives people. They type kavefozo and expect Kávéfőző. They type hedphones and expect headphones. The constraints were the interesting part: The schema could not change. No new columns, no generated columns, no migrations on tables that weren't ours. No new infrastructure. No Elasticsearch,... Weiterlesen