Creating a microservice to index large amounts of content on-the-fly and return accurate results To say Course Hero has a large library of content would be an understatement. Course Hero has hundreds of millions of documents, questions, and other study materials. …

It’s a Monday and you’re in a product planning meeting detailing the scope and timeline of a new feature for your web app; you’re getting ready to tell the product manager your estimated dev days, which will unfortunately be much longer than they planned, leading to a reduction in features…