Typesense Usage for Large-Scale Messaging Apps
TLDR Juri questioned the viability of using Typesense in a large-scale messaging app due to data volume concerns. Jason clarified that usage depends on cost and scale considerations. They also discussed client-side search and data encryption in apps like Whatsapp and Slack.
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May 11, 2021 (31 months ago)
Juri
09:21 PMJason
09:23 PMSo you can definitely use Typesense as well for use cases like that. It comes down to a question of cost and scale, since you'd have to choose clusters to hold all your data in RAM.
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Jason
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09:45 PMJason
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