Solr - Case Study

So you've decided that you need great search, and Solr is going to be the solution? Well implementing a successful search solution based on Solr is a lot more then just downloading some code and firing it up, although Solr does pass the 15 minute test with flying colors!

In this case study we'll look at the various pitfalls and challenges involved in migrating a content driven site from Lucene to Solr for the nations fourth largest retailer. We'll look at some of the decisions we made, from technical, to networking, to operational, and how they impacted the final solution.

You'll leave this session know what challenges await a successful migration effort, and what questions to ask to make sure you are successful.

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Eric Pugh

About Eric Pugh

Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and lately has been mulling over how we move from the read/write web to the read/write/share web.

In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software. As a speaker he has advocated the advantages of Agile practices in software development.

Eric became involved in Solr when he submitted the patch SOLR-284 for Parsing Rich Document types such as PDF and MS Office formats that became the single most popular patch as measured by votes! The patch was subsequently cleaned up and enhanced by three other individuals, demonstrating the power of the Free/Open Source Model to build great code collaboratively. SOLR-284 was eventually refactored into Solr Cell as part of Solr version 1.4.

Eric co-authored “Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server”, the first book on Solr.

He blogs at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/blog/.

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