Engineering

The motivation, techniques, and technical details behind Instant-Segment, a blazing fast word segmenter and the latest addition to Instant Domain Search's suite of open-source tools.

How to use aligned word vectors from fastText to translate words from one language to another instantly.

Listening carefully to what users are saying, and listening especially hard for the hacks people come up with can present learning opportunities for us.

Modern websites are complex, and often need to load data in the background in an asynchronous way. JSON streaming is a simple way to make this happen. Click below to learn how to add JSON to your site and check that it’s working properly.

A CDN works by caching copies of your resources in data centers around the world, called edge servers. But to get new content, a request has to travel back to the origin server, adding latency to the process. In this post, we explain how Amazon’s Route 53 solves this problem.

Curious how Instant Domain Search is able to deliver results so quickly? The site is built using services from Google Cloud and a highly-optimized index from domain name server (DNS) queries. Click below to learn how it works.