SnapDish is a social media platform for foodies to share, communicate, and find friends with common interests in cooking. CloudSearch provides a powerful and reliable search service for SnapDish at a reasonable price. SnapDish uses CloudSearch to search users and dishes, with fields including name, bio, and dishes in multiple languages. CloudSearch is updated through a job queue or SQS to index new or updated user profiles and dish details.

1. & CloudSearch
Fumikazu Kiyota Vuzz Inc. 2014/05/15 @AWS Meguro

2. Index
• Self-introduction
• About SnapDish
• Why CloudSearch?
• How we use CloudSearch
• Summary

3. [self print]
★ Working for Vuzz Inc.
★ Language
Objective-C, Python, Japanese,
English
★ Member of PyCon JP 2014
★ @kiyotaman - twitter
★ Everyday Zazen(meditating) in
the morning.
★ 4 years experience in AWS

4. SnapDish?
SnapDish って？

7. Our mission

8. Help people
cooking everyday!

9. at SnapDish

10. Share

11. Communicate

12. Find Friends

13. in Common

14. Enjoy Cooking!
Image Source: http://www.cancook.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/cancookschools.jpg

15. Why CloudSearch?

16. Simple & Easy Installation
Powerful & Reliable Service
Reasonable & Affordable Price

17. How we use
CloudSearch.

19. Search
users & dishes

20. User search fields
• Full name - multilingual text
ex. アマゾン 太郎
• Account name - Alphabet text
ex. AmazonTarou
• Bio - multilingual text
ex. お寿司とラーメン大好き❤（Love sushi and ramen）

21. Search query
/2013-01-01/search?q=(or (prefix field=screen_name '寿司')
name:'寿司' bio:'寿司')&start=0&q.options={"fields":
["screen_name^10", "name^5", "bio"]}
&q.parser=structured&size=300

22. When update index
・Create a user profile
!
・Update a user profile
!
・Delete a user profile

23. Job Queue
App Server
(Cached)
Job Queue CloudSearch
Client
Enqueue
Add, Delete, Update
DB

24. Dish search fields
(using old version)
• Tokenize - Tokenized text
ex. 寿司 すし スシ お寿司 大好き
※ Still using old API…

25. Search query
/2011-02-01/search?rank=-
text_relevance&facet=homemade,recipe,cookedit,ingredients
&start=0&return-fields=userid&size=300&bq=(and
tokenize:'+すし*' (not recipe:"1"))

26. When update index
・Create a dish detail
・User action on a dish detail
Yummy(Like), Comment, Resnap(Retweet), View, etc..
・Delete dish detail

27. App Server
(Cached)
SQS
Batch
Worker Server
Tokenize
CloudSearch
Client
SQS
Add, Delete, Update
within 5MB
(Batch Size Limitation)
Enqueue
DB
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/limits.html

28. 2011-02-11 to 2013-01-01
• Migration Task
• Indexing options
• Analysis Scheme
• Sort Expression
• Batch worker
• Search query
• Tokenise

29. Summary
• SnapDish is for foodies
• Two ways to update index
(SQS & Batch Recommended)
• Own dictionary gives you better search result

30. Thank you
m(_ _)m

31. https://pycon.jp/2014/
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