Blogs by INFINI Labs

True Partial Updates: How Pizza Engine Achieves 870x Faster Document Mutations

Most search engines treat documents as immutable blobs. Want to change a single field? You have to delete the entire document and re-index it from …

Shrinking a Search Engine to Fit in Your Browser — Part 5: The Last 60 KB

In Part 4 we hit the original target: a full inverted-index search engine in 245 KB gzipped. That should have been the end of the series.

The Multilingual Analysis Stack We Built for Real-World Search

Search quality is decided before ranking even starts. If your analysis layer is weak, every downstream component pays for it: matching, highlighting, …

Shrinking a Search Engine to Fit in Your Browser — Part 4: Optional Geo & Vector Queries

This is Part 4 (final) of a series on shrinking Pizza Engine’s WASM binary from 1.21 MB to 245 KB. In Part 3, we eliminated serde_json. Now we …

Shrinking a Search Engine to Fit in Your Browser — Part 3: Eliminating serde_json

This is Part 3 of a series on shrinking Pizza Engine’s WASM binary from 1.21 MB to 245 KB. In Part 2, we gated aggregations. Now we remove the …

Shrinking a Search Engine to Fit in Your Browser — Part 2: Feature-Gated Aggregations

This is Part 2 of a series on shrinking Pizza Engine’s WASM binary from 1.21 MB to 245 KB. In Part 1, we designed zero-overhead typed bindings. …

Shrinking a Search Engine to Fit in Your Browser — Part 1: Zero-Overhead WASM Bindings

Pizza Engine ships as a WebAssembly module that runs a full inverted-index search engine inside a browser tab or Node.js worker. You mount .fire …

How We Do Documentation Engineering

At INFINI Labs, we see product documentation as an integral part of the product development process. Effective documentation ensures that users …