Erik Hatcher

co-author of "Lucene in Action"

Erik Hatcher
 

Erik advocates for Atlas Search at MongoDB, these days. Prior to this, he co-founded Lucidworks, innovating solutions for customers with Solr and Lucene. He has been a committer on various ASF projects, sits on the Lucene and Solr PMC, and a Member of the ASF.

Erik has spoken at conferences, events, and meetups around the world, entirely on open source projects. He has spoken at JavaOne, Uberconf, the NFJS circuit, Devoxx, Berlin Buzzwords, Lucene Revolution, and many other events and user group meetings.

Presentations

Introduction to Lucene and Solr

Apache Lucene library is at the heart of the majority of search applications in production today either directly or through server frameworks such as Apache Solr and ElasticSearch. Solr powers the search results of sites like Zappos, Orbitz, Walmart.com, and many many more. If your application needs search, you need to know about Lucene and Solr!

This session will introduce you to the basics of search principles, using Lucene's API, including indexing analysis, relevancy topics like TF/IDF, and query parsing. We will then discuss how Solr adds a lot of value, features, flexibility, and ease of use above and beyond Lucene. We will see how Solr provides enormous scalability with distributed, fault-tolerant capabilities and how easy it is to integrate into your applications.

Love of Lucene

From Amazon and Apple to Zappos and Zillow and almost every e-commerce and content serving website in between, Lucene is the heart and soul powering their search and discovery capabilities. While Lucene has
been around for a while, it has kept up with modern day scale and the latest search innovations. Developers often come to know Lucene through the engines and products that embed it, such as Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucidworks Fusion, and Atlas Search.

This talk will peel away the layers often surrounding Lucene; let’s take a look at what it can do and how it can be leveraged effectively in your projects.

Solr Workshop

Apache Solr is a Lucene-based blazing fast, highly scalable search engine used in thousands of applications and projects at organizations such as Zappos, Wells Fargo, Getty Images and many more. This workshop will provide you with the fundamentals, enabling you to be up and running with Solr in minutes.

This workshop covers the following topics:

  • Installing and running Solr
  • Indexing your data
  • Configuring the schema
  • Surveying Solr’s features
  • Tuning and scaling
  • Integrating into your applications

SolrCloud: Searching Big Data

“SolrCloud” is the name given to Apache Solr's feature set for fault tolerant, highly available, and massively scalable capabilities. SolrCloud has enabled organizations to scale, impressively, into the billions of documents with sub-second search! This session will cover the basics to get you started using this powerful technology.

  • Introduction to SolrCloud
  • Ingesting data
  • Searching your SolrCloud
  • Live demonstration
  • Best practices from the field