Otaku Square has used a few search engines throughout it's existence, going from a simple MySQL query, to ElasticSearch, to Algolia and now finally TypeSense. In this article we'll go through why I chose for TypeSense, and how the technical implementation of this went.

Through the majority of 2020 the infrastructure powering Otaku Square has mainly consisted of 3 servers: a webserver, a "system" server and a database server. While this architecture worked, it was very hard to keep stuff up-to-date. In fact, no critical updates could be

PayPal bad, hmmkay. So like any self-respecting and self-torturing merchant Otaku Square's website accepts PayPal payments. There are a few reasons why I'm not a big fan of PayPal, for one their skyscraper high transaction fees but most of all their attitude towards merchants.