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Chapter 16: Cost Efficiency and System Resilience

Design for durability and affordability without sacrificing performance or reliability.

Chapter Overview​

Search infrastructure can be expensive to operate at scale. This chapter covers strategies for optimizing costs through storage tiering, compression, and efficient resource utilization, while maintaining the resilience needed for production workloads.

Balancing cost and performance is a continuous challenge that requires understanding the trade-offs at every layer.

16.1 Storage Tiers​

16.1.1 Hot, warm, and cold layouts

16.1.2 Tier-based latency

16.1.3 Storage and billing impact

16.2 Compression and Archival​

16.2.1 Document and segment deduplication

16.2.2 Long-term archival strategies

16.2.3 Compression tradeoffs for query speed

16.3 Disaster Recovery​

16.3.1 Snapshot and restore workflows

16.3.2 Multi-region replication

16.3.3 High-availability testing and game days

Examples​

Examples coming soon.

Code examples for this chapter will demonstrate storage tiering, compression configuration, and disaster recovery procedures with Lucenia.