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Storage, search & mediaHardSDE-3

During a festive sale, sellers change prices and stock for millions of products every minute, and your search results show stale prices and out-of-stock items. The Elasticsearch cluster is also struggling with the update load. How would you redesign this?

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AmazonFlipkartMeeshoMyntra

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Answer out loud as you would in the room — clarify, give numbers, name the trade-off — then compare with the model answer.

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Design product catalogue search (Myntra / Flipkart) Lesson: Search: inverted indexes and Elasticsearch

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