# How Canva Scaled Their Search to Handle 1M+ Searches Per Minute

DevFeed: [How Canva Scaled Their Search to Handle 1M+ Searches Per Minute](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-canva-scaled-their-search-to-handle-1m-searches-per-minute-17968.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-canva-scaled-their-search-to>)

Author: Richard Oliver Bray

Published: 2024-10-23T13:01:58Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hacking Scale by Better Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hacking-scale-by-better-stack.md>)

Topics: [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Data structures](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-structures.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [A/B Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/a-b-testing.md>)

Tags: [a-b-testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/a-b-testing.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data-structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-structure.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes Canva's search system, which supports searches across templates, media, fonts, and audio at very high request volumes. It explains that separate servers and search indexes created duplicated code and complicated updates and testing, and introduces search indexes as a way to make text retrieval faster.

## Source excerpt

Canva massively leveled-up their search by stripping away duplicated processes