Tag: production

Full-Text Search Without Elasticsearch: BM25 in Pure TypeScript

How we replaced Elasticsearch with a 500-line TypeScript implementation of BM25s for mentor and session search in Mentoring. 4.6 million tokens per second indexing, zero infrastructure dependencies.

We Replaced Node.js With Bun Across Every Production Service. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

The real story of migrating three production services from Node.js to Bun on a single VPS — cold starts, memory savings, deleted dependencies, and every gotcha that bit us.