[chef-dev] Re: [] Lightweight Search

[Adam Jacob < >]

Hi Justin - this is high on our roadmap. 

Let's talk about what the high level interface will look like, and then we 
can dig in to what a particular implementation would entail. Can you write up 
what you are thinking about at Wikia?

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On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Justin Alan Ryan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> At a recent SV Chef meetup we discussed a problem we have at Wikia related 
> to the memory requirements of our chef-client runs.
> 
> Many folks shared similar concerns and some folks from Opscode expressed 
> that they are aware of the problem and that a solution may involve search 
> calls specifying which attributes they need on returned nodes. 
> 
> I haven't heard of any movement on this, and we're considering writing a 
> patch which implements an optional paramater for search and returns 
> abbreviated JSON.
> 
> I talked to a couple of folks who suggested dropping a note here to see if 
> we're potentially duplicating effort and/or if there is any such effort we 
> can contribute to. 
> 
> I'll update as we make progress, thanks in advance for any input!
> 
> Justin
> 
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