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Keyword Discovery: 25 Seconds Down to 0.2, by Calling Search Autocomplete
We mined Naver Q&A threads for keyword fragments and cleaned them up with two LLM calls. Replacing that with Google and Naver autocomplete took the button press from 25.1s to 0.2s and removed the LLM entirely. Google told people to stop using this endpoint in 2015, so there was something to settle before performance.
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Scaling QPS 10x in Production: 3 Strategies That Actually Move the Needle
"Make it faster" sounds vague. It isn't — it comes down to the same three moves: caching, database optimization, and pulling non-essential work out of the request.
