Marketplace Engineering Two-Sided Search and Recsys Planning Best Practices

Comprehensive planning, design and diagnostic guide for search and recommendation systems in two-sided trust marketplaces. Covers OpenSearch index, query and ranking patterns, the methodology for planning retrieval work, the handoff points to recommendation-specific tooling, and the instrumentation and dashboard layer that turns measurement into ongoing decision making. Contains 57 rules across 10 categories ordered by cascade impact, plus two playbooks (plan a new system from scratch, diagnose an existing one) and explicit living-artefact conventions (decisions log, golden set, gotchas).

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