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.

About 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.

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