CarJager: Millions of Vehicle Searches on Meilisearch

This post details CarJager's migration from Algolia to Meilisearch, highlighting the challenges faced with Algolia's sorting limits and pricing model. It emphasizes Meilisearch's advantages in API familiarity, lack of artificial sorting limits, autoscaling capabilities for traffic peaks, and a more aligned cost structure for managed instances. The migration was phased, starting with a low-stakes index and progressing to the core car listings, with Meilisearch's Solution Engineering team providing support. The results show improved developer experience, native sorting across the full catalog, seamless operations through autoscaling, and significant cost reduction.