I think more software engineers should do themselves the favor of dabbling in search engine design.
It really is the gift that keeps on giving in terms of interesting problems, you get everything from large scale graph processing, esoteric data structures, down to bit twiddling optimization, language processing, dealing with seriously messy and sometimes adversarial real world data. Everything is challenging, but none of it is impossible, even as a solo project.
It really is the gift that keeps on giving in terms of interesting problems, you get everything from large scale graph processing, esoteric data structures, down to bit twiddling optimization, language processing, dealing with seriously messy and sometimes adversarial real world data. Everything is challenging, but none of it is impossible, even as a solo project.