Building Duct in public
Why we're writing down how Duct works, what's hard about it, and what we get wrong, as we build it.
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Building Duct in public
How Duct works, what we measured, and what we got wrong. Written by the people building it.
Search, four times faster on big libraries
A common word took 114 ms to find in 30,000 documents. Now it takes 28. Two queries were doing work for results nobody would see.
The privacy ledger: checking what leaves your computer
Duct keeps a record of every connection it makes to another computer. Here's how it works, and what it can't see.
Search that respects who can see what
On a team server, Duct only shows people the files they could open at the source. How we map sharing to search, and why we fail closed.