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Fetched June 8th, 2026
AWS

Building a scalable user search layer on top of Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito lacks native search capabilities, making it difficult to build scalable user discovery and search features in applications.

search databases
3 min

Fetched June 1st, 2026
Meta

SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems

Meta needed to improve the throughput and compute efficiency of retrieval systems for recommendation engines that process user-generated content at massive scale.

search ml-systems
5 min