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Storage, search & mediaMediumSDE-2

You need to change the analyzer on a 400 million document Elasticsearch index to support Hindi and Hinglish search. You cannot change the analyzer in place. How do you roll it out without downtime?

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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 a search indexing pipeline (CDC to Elasticsearch) Lesson: Search: inverted indexes and Elasticsearch

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