This document discusses Magento indexers and how to create a custom indexer. It begins with an overview of how Magento uses indexers to improve performance. It then defines key indexer concepts like indexed data, indexers, and index processes. It describes the indexer workflow and various indexer entities and events. The document concludes by providing steps to create a custom "featured products" indexer, including defining the indexer in configuration, designing the index data table, implementing the model, resource model, and applying the index on the frontend.