Backend Search Patterns

Purpose

Design search architecture with indexing strategy, query design, and relevance tuning.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "search", "Elasticsearch", "Meilisearch", "Algolia", "full-text search", "search index", "search query", "faceted search", "autocomplete", "search ranking", "search relevance", "indexing strategy", "search aggregation", "synonym search", "fuzzy search".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

• Data volume (documents count, average document size, growth rate)
• Search requirements (full-text, faceted navigation, geo-spatial, autocomplete)
• Update frequency (real-time CDC, hourly batch, daily reindex)
• Consistency requirements (eventual consistency acceptable, or need read-your-writes)

Output Artifact

Search architecture design as formatted text.