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Life & fun · July 29, 2020

I've built a Serverless search feature for my blog

Table of Contents Why Serverless? Solution Overview Data Extraction Search Backend Implementation Apache Lucene in a GraalVM Native Binary The Search HTTP Service Wiring Things Up Deployment to AWS …

I've built a Serverless search feature for my blog launched on July 29, 2020 with 10 votes, #1,076 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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This is a serverless search feature designed for blog websites. Built and shared by a developer, it enables readers to search blog content without requiring traditional server infrastructure. The solution leverages serverless architecture to keep setup and maintenance minimal, making it suitable for bloggers and small content creators looking to add search functionality to their sites.

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I have built a custom search functionality for this blog, based on Java and the Apache Lucene full-text search library, compiled into a native binary using the Quarkus framework and GraalVM. It is deployed as a Serverless application running on AWS Lambda, providing search results without any significant cold start delay. If you thought Java wouldn’t be the right language for this job, keep reading; in this post I’m going to give an overview over the implementation of this feature and my learnings along the way. Having a search functionality for my blog has been on my mind for quite some time; I’d like to give users the opportunity to find specific contents on this blog right here on this…from morling.dev

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