\n After 18 months of running Elasticsearch 8.15 in production for our Next.js 15 e-commerce platform, we migrated to Meilisearch 1.5 and cut search p99 latency by 60%, reduced monthly infrastructure spend by $4,200, and eliminated 12 hours of weekly maintenance toil. The open-source search ecosystem’s obsession with Elasticsearch as the default for web search is costing teams millions in wasted compute and engineering hours. \n\n 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ vercel/next.js — 139,209 stars, 30,984 forks 📦 next — 160,854,925 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm.…