MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

I'm impressed. I have a database with 15k documents, each with around 70 pages of text, HTML formatted. I'm using ElasticSearch currently, with the Searchkick gem. 30 min playing with MeiliSearch. So far: - Blazing fast to index, like 10x more performant than using ElasticSearch / Searchkick; - Blazing fast to search, at least 3x faster in all my random tests so far; - Literally zero config; - Uses 140MB of RAM currently, while in my experience ElasticSearch would crash…

Been a happy user of MS in production for https://notado.app for many years, and someone from MS even reached out to me a few years ago thanking me for my write-up of syncing Postgres records to MS[1], saying they used it as a reference for something they later shipped. I haven't kept up with the latest updates, all these new AI references don't inspire confidence at all, but the older version I'm running is chugging along and doing a great…

After installing, I was able to access the API from the localhost. But, without any firewall active on the host, I wasn't able to access the API from other machines in my local network. The documentation didn't mention how to enable full network access to the API. Also, it would be a good idea to explain the scope of the project in the documentation. Apparently this isn't a tool that indexes a bunch of PDF, DOC or TXT documents on…