https://jonnie.github.io/tags/flask/Recent content in Flask on Jonathan FranklinHugoenFri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonnie.github.io/work/product-search-api/Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonnie.github.io/work/product-search-api/<h2 id="problem">Problem</h2> <p>Pricesearcher&rsquo;s website, browser extension and external integrations needed product data from both the company&rsquo;s Elasticsearch index and third-party providers. Combining those sources meant dealing with different response formats, provider latency and client ranking requirements. The API also needed clearer boundaries between the interfaces used by different clients.</p> <h2 id="architecture">Architecture</h2> <p>The Python/Flask API combined the internal Elasticsearch index with Amazon, Yahoo and Kelkoo. Third-party requests ran asynchronously and provider failures were handled separately. Redis with RediSearch supported filtering, sorting and facets over cached results. Web, browser-extension, external-client and core APIs ran as separate deployments with their own OpenAPI specifications.</p>