How Touchless powers instant, scalable vehicle search for large dealer groups

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This post details how Touchless uses Meilisearch to power instant, scalable vehicle search for large dealer groups. It highlights the switch from Algolia due to Meilisearch's API flexibility, integration with edge infrastructure (Cloudflare edge workers and web sockets), and cost-efficiency. The implementation involves a normalization pipeline, Sanity as a database, and dedicated Meilisearch indexes per dealer group, with new indexes spinning up in milliseconds. The system handles search, filtering, and infinite scroll for inventories of up to 9,000 vehicles across multiple locations, emphasizing the performance benefits of Meilisearch's architecture in a multi-tenant SaaS product.