Manticore Search at Scale on Google Cloud: Locally's Story

TL;DR: - Locally runs Manticore Search on Google Cloud as a core part of its production infrastructure - Tens of thousands of queries per second across geo search, ecommerce search, aggregations, and vector search - Migrated from Elasticsearch after long-term challenges with complexity, cost, and indexing speed - Observed ~16× lower costs compared to equivalent Elasticsearch services - Leverages GCP Compute Engine, Managed Instance Groups, and HAProxy for horizontal scaling - Remains stable through peak seasonal traffic with minimal operational overhead - Recommended by Ben Hirsch, CTO & co-fo