Context & Pain Points
Analyzing large volumes of Magento 2 search query records required real-time ingestion pipelines, fast analytical search indices, and cost-efficient cold storage archives.
What We Had To Solve
- Scaling ingestion buffer rates to handle extreme traffic spikes without data loss.
- Optimizing OpenSearch cluster indices to maintain fast query response times under high database volumes.
- Partitioning and compressing historical search histories for long-term audit archiving.
How We Built It
- Deployed Amazon Kinesis Firehose streams as serverless ingestion buffers, batching and compressing records before index storage.
- Engineered serverless pre-processing workers using AWS Lambda to clean and format records on-the-fly.
- Implemented automated OpenSearch index rotation cycles and configured S3 lifecycle policies to transition old logs to Glacier.
Outcomes That Mattered
500M+ Daily Ingestion
Processed and formatted massive daily record streams without dropping a single log entry.
Sub-Second Search
Achieved sub-second response times on complex search analytics queries against billions of index rows.
60% Storage Reduction
Pruned archiving costs by 60% using gzip compression and automated S3 transition policies.
Outcome
Built a log streaming and search analytics engine using Kinesis Firehose, OpenSearch Service, and Aurora PostgreSQL, processing over 500 million Magento 2 records daily.
