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I wish I could search on GitHub without logging in


I wish that too, and I’ve always wanted to offer features like this in everything I build.

But it’s a lot of work to prevent abuse, especially for resource intensive features when supporting unsigned-in use cases.


They used to have 64 core 32 machine cluster just for search. You may want to reduce unnecessary search. https://github.blog/engineering/the-technology-behind-github...


This from a company that uses Ruby for their webapp and hosts probably one of the bigger CI build farms probably in the world. I have a very hard time crying because they have to run a beefy search cluster. I would guess that a very non-trivial portion of the horsepower for such a thing is about ingest of the constant updates moreso than the actual search part




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