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How Lyft Supercharged Elasticsearch Performance at Scale

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Better Engineering
Aug 02, 2025
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Elasticsearch is powerful, but it’s also easy to misuse — especially at scale. As Lyft’s engineering teams discovered, once your data volume grows into the billions, small inefficiencies in your queries and index configurations can snowball into major performance issues.

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