Just wanted to share that at ikas.com, we’re empowering thousands of ecommerce sites, processing an impressive ~1.5 billion queries per month. We manage this using only 3 c5a.2xlarge ec2 instances, with a bit of tweaking for performance. Typesense, our super-efficient search engine, makes all of this possible. If we’d gone with Algolia instead of Typesense, I coluldn’t imagine the costs. And if we tried another open source or managed search engine, things might get even more complicated than they are now.