Case Study: Algolia achieves sub-7ms global search performance and resilient traffic management with NS1's intelligent DNS and traffic management platform

Algolia - Customer Case Study

Algolia is a Search-as-a-Service provider powering major tech, media and e‑commerce sites with a globally distributed search platform that handles billions of queries and must deliver sub-15ms responses. To meet stringent requirements for speed, per-account routing logic, automated onboarding and resilient failover, Algolia needed a DNS and traffic-management solution that was faster, more granular and easier to integrate than traditional managed DNS.

Algolia deployed NS1’s intelligent DNS + traffic management platform, integrating account-specific logic via NS1’s API and using edns-client-subnet and NS1’s filter chain for real‑time georouting, failover and load shedding. The result was substantially improved performance (average server response under 7 ms), scalable delivery across global regions serving billions of queries monthly, seamless maintenance with no customer impact, and reduced operational time and costs.

Algolia

Julien Lemoine

Co-founder & CTO