Hello Guix :),
Sorry for the late followup :/

Hope your summer is going well!

I'm sending this email to follow up on the search functionality for
packages.
With Chris's help I managed to make some changes that make the query for
searching packages within the Guix Data Service faster.
I don't know if the search is fast enough to be included on the Guix
website, but I thought it would be good to share.

Search packages page in the test version of the website that Chris
deployed: guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search

If you'd want to have a look at the code changes:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/data-service.git/commit/?id=ee613cdb305cc1e443135d311aead6c799902b8a
this is the commit where the changes start.

Looking forward to your feedback!

Best regards,
Danjela


On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 21:47, Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> wrote:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > On berlin we’ll have to keep using nginx I guess (there’s too much
> > config in there), but perhaps Varnish is an option for the Data Service.
>
> To be clear, Varnish is not a replacement for nginx (it does not even
> speak HTTPS), the typical deployment is nginx -> Varnish -> backend.  It
> introduces another "hop" though.
>
> I'm not sure if it's worth the added complexity here, just thought I'd
> mention it.  It's a programming language for caching/proxying logic.
>