# Architecture behind our new Search and Explore experience

DevFeed: [Architecture behind our new Search and Explore experience](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/architecture-behind-our-new-search-and-explore-experience-1994.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//architecture-behind-our-new-search-and-explore-experience>)

Published: 2012-12-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [apache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [consumer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consumer.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [experiment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiment.md>), [explore](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/explore.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [new-feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/new-feature.md>), [recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recovery.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [search-and-discovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search-and-discovery.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes the architecture behind its new Search and Explore experience. The article explains that the earlier Apache Solr search implementation became difficult to keep real-time, re-index, recover, scale, and modify as the product and data grew. The supplied text introduces an overhaul intended to improve relevance, scalability, experimentation, and feature delivery, but does not include the details of the new architecture.

## Source excerpt

Search is front-and-center in the new SoundCloud, key to the consumer experience. We've made the search box one of the first things you see...