Every keystroke needs ranked suggestions back in tens of milliseconds, at search-engine QPS. The interesting part is the data structure and what you precompute, not the query path. Here is the design that survives the latency budget.
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Every keystroke needs ranked suggestions back in tens of milliseconds, at search-engine QPS. The interesting part is the data structure and what you precompute, not the query path. Here is the design that survives the latency budget.
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