I’m sorry for the lack of project updates 🙇 I have been working on a lot of OSS work so this has taken a back seat. However, I have added a lot to the project since my last update . It’s nearing completion.
One of the key parts of the design of my search engine is the ability for the spiders to send the pages which they have explored to a central point. Additionally, a more conventional design might use a push/pull system, so the conductor polls each spider in turn and requests the pages which it has seen using pagination. This has several problems.
As I mentioned in my last Building a Search engine , I’ve been busy building my search engine lately, and it’s been a lot of fun diving deep into Kubernetes and learning how to set everything up from scratch.
I was re-reading “I am feeling lucky” and this inspired me, so I have decided to create a search engine. This is a very ambitious project; however, it will teach me a lot about building a micro service with Kubernetes all from scratch.
My plan is to refactor the spider to use a relational database. I am learning towards each spider having its own SQLite db. Then create a service which can go to the spiders and get their current crawl and add them to a central DB. This will create a single graph of all the visited notes.