[msftie]

I’m poking around while on an airplane, so the network speed is pretty slow. The site crawls to a stop with each character I type into the search box. As a performance booster, perhaps consider adding a short delay before firing off queries to update the results or decoupling the the search box from the query result?

[lucianh]

Ah, unstable connections! It's good that you've noticed me of this performance matter. I'm going to look for improving this issue.

[finack]

Crazy idea: provide a search box, and when the user hits "enter", POST the data to the backend, which queries the database, and then returns the relevant results.

[10000truths]

It's possible to make autosuggest performant on poor Internet connections, it just needs a little more thought put into optimizing for it:

1. Debounce!

2. Use WebSockets to minimize unnecessary round trips

3. Cache previous results and use them when the input is a superstring of a previous input (e.g. results for "Android mobile dev" will always be a subset of the results for "mobile dev")

[szundi]

Crazy straightforward

[ryanwaggoner]

Retro.