A Decade with Manticore: Highs and Learning Opportunities

[kalaverin]

My appreciation for Manticore, as a worthy successor in its field, is elaborated in my article on Habr: Manticore: The Evolution of Search (link https://habr.com/ru/companies/wargaming/articles/580232/). This piece outlines the aspects that make Manticore stand out, emphasizing its strengths and the evolutionary leap it represents from its predecessors. Having worked with this technology stack for over a decade, I can confidently say that my journey has been largely smooth. Manticore has been a reliable and effective solution for our specific needs within its scope, showcasing its capabilities as a top-tier search engine. However, my experience hasn't been without challenges. The infrequency of major updates, while ensuring stability, has also led to significant issues. The latest major release, in particular, resulted in cascading problems and outages across our services worldwide—affecting everything from memory leaks to tokenization and randomly inaccurate search results. Such incidents have notably impacted our business and presented management with considerable hurdles. Despite these obstacles, my overall sentiment towards Manticore remains positive. Its strengths in speed, flexibility, and scalability continue to make it an excellent tool for our search needs. The challenges we've encountered serve as learning opportunities, highlighting areas for improvement and development within the Manticore ecosystem.

On the other hand, Manticore has been developing extremely actively over the past few years, every major release there is a significant expansion of functionality, dozens of bugfixes appear. All this gives hope for further cooperation and reuse of expertise in other projects.

[airolg]

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