The document discusses using Solr to power the search functionality on a dating site called Jazzed. It was created by eHarmony to handle a broader range of relationships. Solr allows for fast and effective search of user profiles, and supports features like faceting, geospatial search, and querying on structured profile fields. The architecture utilizes Solr, Voldemort, and other open source tools to handle search and data storage at scale.
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Creating a Product of Your Own by Adam BakerPhilip Taylor
The document provides an overview of a 45-minute presentation on creating your own product. It introduces the presenter, Adam Baker, and outlines that the presentation will equip attendees with the tools to launch a product of their own and motivate them to create it. It then discusses Baker's background and experience launching several products. The presentation teaches attendees to get an idea by asking themselves, their tribe, and the world questions, and then create and sell their product.
Chicago Solr Meetup - June 10th: This Ain't Your Parents' Search EngineLucidworks (Archived)
The document discusses how search has evolved beyond traditional keyword search to include more complex tasks like recommendations, classifications, and analytics using distributed technologies like Hadoop. It provides an overview of new capabilities in Lucene/Solr like reduced memory usage, pluggable codecs, and spatial search upgrades. LucidWorks offers products like Solr and SiLK that integrate with Hadoop and provide search and analytics capabilities across distributed data.
This document provides biographical information about Bob Dylan and summarizes his famous song "Like a Rolling Stone". It notes that Dylan was born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota and was a pioneer of folk rock music. The song was written in 1965 and critiques a woman who lived a privileged life but has now lost her status and money, leaving her struggling like those she once looked down upon. The song became one of Dylan's most famous and influential works, praised for its creative use of new musical styles and techniques.
Got data? Let's make it searchable! This interactive presentation will demonstrate getting documents into Solr quickly, will provide some tips in adjusting Solr's schema to match your needs better, and finally will discuss how showcase your data in a flexible search user interface. We'll see how to rapidly leverage faceting, highlighting, spell checking, and debugging. Even after all that, there will be enough time left to outline the next steps in developing your search application and taking it to production.
The scene- I love you like a love song Selena Gomeztanica
Selena Gomez is an American singer and actress born in 1992 in Grand Prairie, Texas. She began her career starring in the television series Wizards of Waverly Place. Her career expanded into music, contributing songs to soundtracks and releasing her own albums as part of the band The Scene. In 2011, she wrote and recorded the song "Love You like a Love Song" which was rumored to have been dedicated to her then-boyfriend Justin Bieber. The song expresses feelings of being completely in love.
Creating a Product of Your Own by Adam BakerPhilip Taylor
The document provides an overview of a 45-minute presentation on creating your own product. It introduces the presenter, Adam Baker, and outlines that the presentation will equip attendees with the tools to launch a product of their own and motivate them to create it. It then discusses Baker's background and experience launching several products. The presentation teaches attendees to get an idea by asking themselves, their tribe, and the world questions, and then create and sell their product.
Chicago Solr Meetup - June 10th: This Ain't Your Parents' Search EngineLucidworks (Archived)
The document discusses how search has evolved beyond traditional keyword search to include more complex tasks like recommendations, classifications, and analytics using distributed technologies like Hadoop. It provides an overview of new capabilities in Lucene/Solr like reduced memory usage, pluggable codecs, and spatial search upgrades. LucidWorks offers products like Solr and SiLK that integrate with Hadoop and provide search and analytics capabilities across distributed data.
This document provides biographical information about Bob Dylan and summarizes his famous song "Like a Rolling Stone". It notes that Dylan was born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota and was a pioneer of folk rock music. The song was written in 1965 and critiques a woman who lived a privileged life but has now lost her status and money, leaving her struggling like those she once looked down upon. The song became one of Dylan's most famous and influential works, praised for its creative use of new musical styles and techniques.
Got data? Let's make it searchable! This interactive presentation will demonstrate getting documents into Solr quickly, will provide some tips in adjusting Solr's schema to match your needs better, and finally will discuss how showcase your data in a flexible search user interface. We'll see how to rapidly leverage faceting, highlighting, spell checking, and debugging. Even after all that, there will be enough time left to outline the next steps in developing your search application and taking it to production.
The scene- I love you like a love song Selena Gomeztanica
Selena Gomez is an American singer and actress born in 1992 in Grand Prairie, Texas. She began her career starring in the television series Wizards of Waverly Place. Her career expanded into music, contributing songs to soundtracks and releasing her own albums as part of the band The Scene. In 2011, she wrote and recorded the song "Love You like a Love Song" which was rumored to have been dedicated to her then-boyfriend Justin Bieber. The song expresses feelings of being completely in love.
This document provides guidance on preparing an effective investor presentation. It explains that investors will use the initial presentation meeting to evaluate entrepreneurs and eliminate those they don't believe in or trust. The key elements of a presentation are outlined as the problem being solved, the solution, the market size and growth, revenue model, current and targeted customers, distribution channels, competition, strategic partners, management team, financing needed, financial projections, and exit strategy. Presenters are advised to keep the presentation concise at around 12 slides, use visuals over text, and practice extensively to feel comfortable during the question and answer period.
Maroon 5 is an American rock band formed in 2002 in LA. They released their hit song "Makes Me Wonder" in 2007 as part of their album "It Won't Be Soon Before Long". The song reflects the lead singer Adam Levine's feelings after a relationship went wrong. It explores themes of doubt, confusion, and wondering if he truly cared about his former partner. The lyrics describe the physical pleasure of the relationship but also the pain that followed.
Lucene and Solr provide many excellent tools for presenting information to users, but what makes some search user interfaces better than others? Should you aim for a rich, advanced UI or should you "just make it look like Google"?
Through his work at TwigKit with blue-chip corporations, scientific institutes, and governments, Tyler has identified four guiding pillars of the search experience
The document provides tips for achieving a bright, white smile like Justin Bieber's, including brushing after meals, flossing regularly, avoiding staining foods and drinks, seeing a dentist for cleanings and stain removal, and visiting Dr. D. Keith Simmons for professional teeth whitening when home kits are not enough. It also provides contact information for Dr. Simmons' dental practice in Chesapeake, Virginia.
How The Guardian Embraced the Internet using Content, Search, and Open SourceLucidworks (Archived)
This talk will cover how The Guardian opened up their business, enriched it, and reached new markets with its Open Platform strategy. Stephen will cover the technical architecture, implementation of Solr (the key technology powering the platform), and how The Guardian has used it to embrace disruption in the media space, while finding new sources of revenue and innovation
This document outlines a plan to start a sustainable business called We Beat The Mountain that would manufacture and sell products made from recycled materials, such as tires. The business would target environmentally and socially conscious consumers between ages 20-40 globally. Products would be of high quality, durable design and sold through an online store as well as partnerships with related industries. Initial product plans focus on selling recycled tire suitcases to tap into the $18 billion annual luggage market. Sales projections estimate selling between 3,000-10,000 suitcases in the first year, scaling up to 7,500-20,000 units by the third year.
The document discusses search analytics, which involves analyzing query and click data from search to generate reports. It provides examples of common report types like top queries, zero hit queries, and low click-through rate queries. The purpose is to measure search performance, understand user intent, and identify opportunities to improve search relevance, navigation, and the user experience.
Building a Lightweight Discovery Interface for Chinese Patents, Presented by ...Lucidworks (Archived)
This document discusses building a lightweight discovery interface for Chinese patents. It describes using parsers and the cloud to ingest various patent file formats and metadata in order to build a search interface. It emphasizes spending adequate time on user experience design and sharing data with users and other applications.
The document discusses the search capabilities and infrastructure at TheLadders.com. It describes how they standardized their search using Solr, setting up a search team in 2010 and platform team in 2011. It also discusses challenges like complex boolean queries and implementing a recommendation service using Solr as the backend.
The document summarizes a song analysis activity completed by students on the song "Creep" by Radiohead. It includes the students' names who participated and the group number. Links are provided to the song and music video on YouTube and Radiohead's website, as well as additional information about the band and song from other websites.
Solr & Lucene at Etsy provides concise summaries of Gregg Donovan's experience using Solr and Lucene at Etsy and TheLadders, including optimizing Solr out-of-the-box, customizing at a low level, and knowing when each approach is best. The document also shares various techniques for improving relevance, performance, and customization including external file fields, boosting queries, impression tracking, and more.
Search was once considered a black-box application that ingested content and delivered results to users opaquely. However, driven by the opportunities and demands of the growing universe of content and by the versatility of Solr/Lucene open source search technology, search applications are evolving from a standalone facility to an enabling framework.http://www.lucidimagination.com/developer/whitepapers/search-readiness-checklist
This card from a daughter to her mother expresses love and appreciation for her mother on Mother's Day. It reflects on how their bond began at birth and has remained unbreakable through ups and downs. While one day is not enough to show appreciation, the daughter is grateful that her mother has always been there for her with love regardless of circumstances. She wishes her mother a love-filled Mother's Day.
Etsy is using Solr and Lucene to serve queries at a rate of more than 8 billion per year (and growing). In this case study, we will describe how Etsy has integrated Solr/Lucene into our continuous deployment infrastructure, allowing for Solr configuration, Java-based indexers, and query parsing logic to go from passing tests to production code in minutes.
Cancer is caused by uncontrolled cell growth and can affect people of any age. It occurs when cells copy their contents and form new cells that can spread to other parts of the body through metastasis. Some causes of cancer include tobacco, radiation, chemicals, viruses, and diets low in fruits and vegetables. Common cancer types are breast, brain, leukemia, testicular, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. While there is no cure for cancer, treatments include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, but these can also harm normal cells. Finding effective treatments is an ongoing challenge due to cancer's diversity and ability to evade the body's defenses.
The document provides an overview of JavaScript including its history and influences, present uses, ubiquity, syntax, and debugging environments. It describes JavaScript's origins in 1995 and C-like syntax, discusses how it is used in browsers, engines, servers and toolkits. The summary explores JavaScript's object model and prototypal inheritance, and provides resources to learn more.
This document provides guidance on preparing an effective investor presentation. It explains that investors will use the initial presentation meeting to evaluate entrepreneurs and eliminate those they don't believe in or trust. The key elements of a presentation are outlined as the problem being solved, the solution, the market size and growth, revenue model, current and targeted customers, distribution channels, competition, strategic partners, management team, financing needed, financial projections, and exit strategy. Presenters are advised to keep the presentation concise at around 12 slides, use visuals over text, and practice extensively to feel comfortable during the question and answer period.
Maroon 5 is an American rock band formed in 2002 in LA. They released their hit song "Makes Me Wonder" in 2007 as part of their album "It Won't Be Soon Before Long". The song reflects the lead singer Adam Levine's feelings after a relationship went wrong. It explores themes of doubt, confusion, and wondering if he truly cared about his former partner. The lyrics describe the physical pleasure of the relationship but also the pain that followed.
Lucene and Solr provide many excellent tools for presenting information to users, but what makes some search user interfaces better than others? Should you aim for a rich, advanced UI or should you "just make it look like Google"?
Through his work at TwigKit with blue-chip corporations, scientific institutes, and governments, Tyler has identified four guiding pillars of the search experience
The document provides tips for achieving a bright, white smile like Justin Bieber's, including brushing after meals, flossing regularly, avoiding staining foods and drinks, seeing a dentist for cleanings and stain removal, and visiting Dr. D. Keith Simmons for professional teeth whitening when home kits are not enough. It also provides contact information for Dr. Simmons' dental practice in Chesapeake, Virginia.
How The Guardian Embraced the Internet using Content, Search, and Open SourceLucidworks (Archived)
This talk will cover how The Guardian opened up their business, enriched it, and reached new markets with its Open Platform strategy. Stephen will cover the technical architecture, implementation of Solr (the key technology powering the platform), and how The Guardian has used it to embrace disruption in the media space, while finding new sources of revenue and innovation
This document outlines a plan to start a sustainable business called We Beat The Mountain that would manufacture and sell products made from recycled materials, such as tires. The business would target environmentally and socially conscious consumers between ages 20-40 globally. Products would be of high quality, durable design and sold through an online store as well as partnerships with related industries. Initial product plans focus on selling recycled tire suitcases to tap into the $18 billion annual luggage market. Sales projections estimate selling between 3,000-10,000 suitcases in the first year, scaling up to 7,500-20,000 units by the third year.
The document discusses search analytics, which involves analyzing query and click data from search to generate reports. It provides examples of common report types like top queries, zero hit queries, and low click-through rate queries. The purpose is to measure search performance, understand user intent, and identify opportunities to improve search relevance, navigation, and the user experience.
Building a Lightweight Discovery Interface for Chinese Patents, Presented by ...Lucidworks (Archived)
This document discusses building a lightweight discovery interface for Chinese patents. It describes using parsers and the cloud to ingest various patent file formats and metadata in order to build a search interface. It emphasizes spending adequate time on user experience design and sharing data with users and other applications.
The document discusses the search capabilities and infrastructure at TheLadders.com. It describes how they standardized their search using Solr, setting up a search team in 2010 and platform team in 2011. It also discusses challenges like complex boolean queries and implementing a recommendation service using Solr as the backend.
The document summarizes a song analysis activity completed by students on the song "Creep" by Radiohead. It includes the students' names who participated and the group number. Links are provided to the song and music video on YouTube and Radiohead's website, as well as additional information about the band and song from other websites.
Solr & Lucene at Etsy provides concise summaries of Gregg Donovan's experience using Solr and Lucene at Etsy and TheLadders, including optimizing Solr out-of-the-box, customizing at a low level, and knowing when each approach is best. The document also shares various techniques for improving relevance, performance, and customization including external file fields, boosting queries, impression tracking, and more.
Search was once considered a black-box application that ingested content and delivered results to users opaquely. However, driven by the opportunities and demands of the growing universe of content and by the versatility of Solr/Lucene open source search technology, search applications are evolving from a standalone facility to an enabling framework.http://www.lucidimagination.com/developer/whitepapers/search-readiness-checklist
This card from a daughter to her mother expresses love and appreciation for her mother on Mother's Day. It reflects on how their bond began at birth and has remained unbreakable through ups and downs. While one day is not enough to show appreciation, the daughter is grateful that her mother has always been there for her with love regardless of circumstances. She wishes her mother a love-filled Mother's Day.
Etsy is using Solr and Lucene to serve queries at a rate of more than 8 billion per year (and growing). In this case study, we will describe how Etsy has integrated Solr/Lucene into our continuous deployment infrastructure, allowing for Solr configuration, Java-based indexers, and query parsing logic to go from passing tests to production code in minutes.
Cancer is caused by uncontrolled cell growth and can affect people of any age. It occurs when cells copy their contents and form new cells that can spread to other parts of the body through metastasis. Some causes of cancer include tobacco, radiation, chemicals, viruses, and diets low in fruits and vegetables. Common cancer types are breast, brain, leukemia, testicular, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. While there is no cure for cancer, treatments include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, but these can also harm normal cells. Finding effective treatments is an ongoing challenge due to cancer's diversity and ability to evade the body's defenses.
The document provides an overview of JavaScript including its history and influences, present uses, ubiquity, syntax, and debugging environments. It describes JavaScript's origins in 1995 and C-like syntax, discusses how it is used in browsers, engines, servers and toolkits. The summary explores JavaScript's object model and prototypal inheritance, and provides resources to learn more.
The cornerstone of UX, user interface design presents unique, user-centric challenges, exposing exciting opportunities to produce cohesive and engaging interactive experiences. Covering mobile-specific UI principles, practical implementation and rule breaking, Fred Spencer will share with you how the Titanium platform can make it easy to meaningfully improve user experience and exceed user expectations.
Located in the greater Boston area, Fred is an Appcelerator senior application architect and digital media instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, Continuing Education.
Session highlights include:
- Simple design techniques that add consistency, subtly and nuance
- Balancing user expectations during asynchronous tasks
- Connect with animation and sound
- Risks and rewards of going fully custom
- Resources that extend and inspire
Business of APIs Conference 2011 - UnicornsMashery
This document discusses unicorns, which are defined as developers, fanboys, early adopters, hackers, and community members who are passionate about a product. Unicorns are valuable for their community support, institutional memory, beta testing, potential as future employees, and passion. However, supporting large numbers of people can be difficult due to increasing support costs, divergent views, and development time. The document suggests empowering unicorns by making them forum moderators, allowing them to write blog posts, giving them early access to features, and rewarding them with presents. It also advises iterating the product, API, and community based on unicorn feedback.
Preparing and Researching PresentationsAllThatMedia
The document discusses preparing and researching presentations. It recommends starting with clarifying the purpose and analyzing the audience. Speakers should choose a topic they are interested in that meets the assignment requirements. Thorough research should come from a range of sources and include quotations, comparisons, and contrasts. Credible research ensures the information is accurate, appropriate, recent, relevant, and believable. Proper citation and record keeping prevents plagiarism. Ethical speaking involves being trustworthy, respectful, responsible, and fair.
Lean UX Principles in Practice (Zach Larson on SideReel's iOS App)Balanced Team
Zach will discuss the 9 LeanUX principles and how his team used them as they built and exited a company. Few of the principles were intentionally picked but most became apparent once codified. He'll specifically talk about a few key practices (Information Radiators and Vicious Prioritization) that helped make the SideReel team a phenomenal success.
See also http://www.balancedteam.org/balconf-2011-resources/ for other Balanced Team Conference talks.
Sustainable Theming with Fusion - DCCO 2011sheenadonnelly
This document summarizes a presentation about sustainable theming using Fusion Drupal themes. It discusses common unsustainable habits like assuming static content, striving for pixel perfection, and repeating styles. Quick fixes for sustainable theming are presented, including designing for abstraction, using a solid base theme, styling generally to create flexibility, and using the Fusion theme and Skinr module which allow non-developers to easily change styles without coding. Resources for learning more about Fusion theming are provided.
My JSConf.eu presentation. Some recycling from CapitolJS, but new stuff in the middle on ES6 special forms triangle, monocle-mustache, classes (syntax in progress), and how the JS community can help.
Bonfire... How'd You Do That?! - AtlasCamp 2011Atlassian
How do you write a JIRA plugin that works across 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4? How can you find the metadata for the JIRA issue creation form? How can you create the issue itself, and attach the screenshot? And how is this going to change in JIRA 5.0 and beyond? This talk will cover all this, and more!
This document provides information about database bloat and performance tuning. It introduces Denish Patel, a database architect with expertise in heterogeneous databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL. The document discusses what causes database bloat, issues it can create, and tools for identifying, measuring and removing bloat. These include vacuum, vacuum full, cluster, pg_bloat_report, check_postgres_bloat, compact_table and pg_reorg. Monitoring and prevention techniques are also covered.
This document summarizes a presentation about library publishing services, skills, characteristics, and culture. It discusses the publishing services offered at the University of Michigan library including journal publishing, digital projects, and hosting services. It also outlines the professional development of the presenter in library publishing and identifies skills needed for library publishing professionals like collaboration, emerging technologies, and traditional publishing processes. Core elements of library publishing training are proposed like scholarly communication, business models, and standards. Characteristics of successful library publishing include learning by doing, taking manageable risks, and developing partnerships.
The document discusses a presentation on mobile eLearning and the changing landscape of education. Key points include a vision for student-centric learning, how ubiquitous wireless access and mobile devices are enabling learning anywhere anytime, and how this is transforming education from a teacher-centric model to one focused on student needs through collaborative and personalized learning. Initiatives of the eLearning Consortium to support this transition are also outlined.
The document introduces Yann Yu from Lucidworks and provides information about Lucidworks and its products Solr and Hadoop. It discusses how Solr can be used to provide search capabilities for large amounts of both structured and unstructured data stored in Hadoop. Integrating Solr and Hadoop allows for fast search across big data stored in Hadoop along with real-time indexing and querying capabilities. Examples discussed include enabling enterprise-wide search of documents stored in Hadoop and using Flume to index log data from Hadoop into Solr for real-time analytics and search.
Couchbase Connect 2014: Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes takes you on a fantastic voyage through the hope and the hype of big data and why the future is search-centric.
SFBay Area Solr Meetup - July 15th: Integrating Hadoop and SolrLucidworks (Archived)
The document discusses integrating Hadoop and Solr to enable fast, ad-hoc search across structured and unstructured big data stored in Hadoop. It provides examples of how Hadoop can be used for large-scale storage and processing while Solr is used for real-time querying and search. Specifically, it describes how the Lucidworks HDFS connector can process documents from HDFS and index them into SolrCloud for search, and how log data can be ingested from Flume into HDFS for archiving and extracted fields can be indexed into Solr in real-time for search and analytics dashboards.
SFBay Area Solr Meetup - June 18th: Box + Solr = Content Search for BusinessLucidworks (Archived)
Box uses the Solr search platform to power content search across its 25 million+ users. Some key aspects of Box's search implementation with Solr include:
1) The Solr index is sharded or split across multiple shards for high availability and scalability, with each file identifier mapped to a specific shard.
2) Search queries are handled by a front-end load balancer that distributes queries across multiple search head nodes for high availability.
3) Solr documents contain metadata like file owner, parent folders, and extracted text to support search by content, ownership, and folder structure.
SFBay Area Solr Meetup - June 18th: Benchmarking Solr PerformanceLucidworks (Archived)
The document discusses benchmarking the performance of SolrCloud clusters. It describes Timothy Potter's experience operating a large SolrCloud cluster at Dachis Group. It outlines an methodology for benchmarking indexing performance by varying the number of servers, shards, and replicas. Results show near-linear scalability as nodes are added. The document also introduces the Solr Scale Toolkit for deploying and managing SolrCloud clusters using Python and AWS. It demonstrates integrating Solr with tools like Logstash and Kibana for log aggregation and dashboards.
This document discusses integrating search capabilities with Hadoop's big data analytics. It explains that Hadoop is well-suited for distributed storage and processing of large datasets, while search excels at free-text retrieval and indexing large amounts of text. The document outlines how the speaker's company integrated Hadoop and search using HBase replication to a search index, allowing results from Hadoop jobs to be searchable in near real-time. It provides an example use case of monitoring tweets for keywords and extracting mentioned URLs to visualize popular links.
Solr 4.7 and 4.8 include new features such as asynchronous execution of long-running actions, cursors for deep paging, document expiration, dynamic synonyms and stopwords, SSL support in SolrCloud, and improved collections API. Future versions will focus on ZooKeeper as the single source of truth, incremental field updates, multi-valued DocValues sorting, and removing legacy field types. The speaker also discussed related open source projects from LucidWorks for deploying Solr on AWS, log processing, and data quality.
Minneapolis Solr Meetup - May 28, 2014: eCommerce Search with Apache SolrLucidworks (Archived)
This document discusses how Apache Solr can power ecommerce search and provides examples of companies using it. It outlines basic features for ecommerce like facets, highlighting, and boosting as well as advanced features like spatial search and analytics. The document also provides tips for ecommerce search like understanding user needs, debugging issues, and leveraging signals from user behavior to improve relevance.
Target transitioned from their previous search platform to using Solr. Some benefits they found included the speed of importing data into Solr and the ease of adding additional data signals to improve relevancy. However, they had to start from scratch on their relevancy strategy in Solr and found facets worked differently between the platforms. Target also discussed how they were able to improve relevancy by incorporating guest activity data on their website to surface more viewed and ordered items.
Exploration of multidimensional biomedical data in pub chem, Presented by Lia...Lucidworks (Archived)
The document discusses the development of a new search system for PubChem to allow for exploration of multidimensional biomedical data. The new system was needed to address the challenges of handling large and heterogeneous datasets with many relationships between data types in a way that allows for fast querying. The system leverages Apache SOLR to provide features like full text search, faceting, molecule structure searching and joining of related data. It includes backend components like SOLR, SQL and specialized search engines as well as web APIs and frontend interfaces like reusable widgets and a new search interface.
Unstructured Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the xml, Presented...Lucidworks (Archived)
This document discusses Solr, an open source search platform from the Apache Lucene project. It provides full-text search, faceted search, auto-suggest capabilities, and supports multiple file formats for document indexing. The document outlines Solr's architecture and components, provides usage examples from large government sites, and recommends related open source tools.
Big Data Challenges, Presented by Wes Caldwell at SolrExchage DCLucidworks (Archived)
ISS is a software solutions company that provides big data management tools to Department of Defense and intelligence community customers. They have over 800 employees across several US offices. Their solutions are reusable, license-free for the US government, and scalable from single users to large networks with thousands of users. Customers have thousands of heterogeneous data sources that create data at an increasing rate, making effective search and analytics tools necessary to help analysts extract useful information and actionable intelligence from large amounts of unstructured data in tactical environments. ISS argues that search must be the cornerstone of an effective big data strategy, allowing normalization, indexing, and semantic search of content to help analysts focus their efforts and gain insights from large data sets.
What's New in Lucene/Solr Presented by Grant Ingersoll at SolrExchage DCLucidworks (Archived)
Lucene and Solr 4.8 include improvements to speed, flexibility, and scalability. Key updates include native near real-time support in Lucene, faster indexing with document writer per thread, and improved fuzzy and wildcard query processing. Solr 4 offers new faceting, geospatial, and distributed capabilities. Both projects provide easier configuration and more pluggable scoring and indexing options to improve search relevance and performance.
This document summarizes Sean Timm's presentation on Solr and Lucene at AOL. It discusses AOL's history with search technologies including using Open Directory Project (ODP) and building search into AOL Server using their own retrieval model (CPL). It describes AOL's contributions to Solr/Lucene including the Data Import Handler. It provides recommendations for contributing to the Solr/Lucene community such as answering questions, improving documentation, and submitting patches. It highlights some of AOL's applications of Solr like search for MapQuest, AIM, Mail, and analyzing Sarah Palin's emails.
This document provides an introduction to SolrCloud, which enables horizontal scaling of a Solr search index using sharding and replication. Key terminology is defined, including ZooKeeper, nodes, collections, shards, replicas, and leaders. The document outlines the high-level SolrCloud architecture and discusses features like sharding, document routing, replication, distributed indexing and querying. Challenges around consistency and availability are also covered.
Test Driven Relevancy, Presented by Doug Turnbull at SolrExchage DCLucidworks (Archived)
Doug discusses challenges with collaboration between search developers and content experts when optimizing search relevancy. The current process of developers making changes and experts having to wait a week for results is inefficient. Doug proposes applying test-driven development principles to search by having experts continuously test search results and provide feedback on changes in real-time. This allows developers to get immediate feedback and ensures changes are improving search quality. Doug's company built a tool called Quepid that implements this approach to enable better collaboration between experts and developers when optimizing search.
This document discusses building a data-driven log analysis application using LucidWorks SILK. It begins with an introduction to LucidWorks and discusses the continuum of search capabilities from enterprise search to big data search. It then describes how SILK can enable big data search across structured and unstructured data at massive scale. The solution components involve collecting log data from various sources using connectors, ingesting it into Solr, and building visualizations for analysis. It concludes with a demo and contact information.
LucidWorks App for Splunk Enterprise is the first of its kind, specifically designed to allow companies to analyze and manage the health and availability of their Solr deployments in Splunk software. The solution integrates multi-structured data indexed by Solr directly into Splunk® Enterprise, giving system administrators the ability to look at the intersection of documents, customer records or other unstructured data sources as they relate to machine data. This enables companies to optimize their Solr applications, glean insights from search and usage patterns and spot security concerns to improve end user experiences and derive more business value from data-driven applications.
This webinar will explore the features of the App, and provide attendees with valuable information on the following key components:
Solr Monitor: Monitor the health and availability and utilization of LucidWorks and/or Solr deployments with pre-defined data inputs, dashboards and reports
Search Analytics: Perform user behavior and click-stream analysis with pre-built search analytics reports and fields
NoSQL Lookups: Using Splunk’s lookup facility enrich your Splunk reports with data of any structure using Solr’s fully indexed and searchable NoSQL-datastore
Search Time Joins: Join Splunk data with human generated and other unstructured data sources stored in Solr at search time for developing data-driven applications
The document discusses Solr 4, an open source search platform built on Apache Lucene. Some key points:
- Solr 4 is a NoSQL search server that provides distributed indexing, fault tolerance, and real-time search capabilities.
- Solr Cloud is Solr's distributed architecture which uses Zookeeper for coordination to provide features like automatic sharding and replication of indexes across multiple servers.
- The document outlines Solr 4's capabilities including schema-less options, atomic updates, optimistic concurrency, and a REST API for managing the schema dynamically.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
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1. About Solr
People as A Search Problem
Thursday, May 26, 2011
2. About Me
• Building websites since 1996, Java since
1997
• Prior web search experience
• Building and scaling eHarmony
products since 2002
Thursday, May 26, 2011
3. What is Jazzed
• Subscription Based
Dating Site
• Incubated by
eHarmony
Thursday, May 26, 2011
4. What is Jazzed
• Create a profile
• Search for others
• View their photos
• Privately
Communicate
Thursday, May 26, 2011
5. What is Jazzed
• Create a profile
• Search for others
• View their photos
• Privately
Communicate
Thursday, May 26, 2011
6. What is Jazzed
• Create a profile
• Search for others
• View their photos
• Privately
Communicate
Thursday, May 26, 2011
7. What is Jazzed
• Create a profile
• Search for others
• View their photos
• Privately
Communicate
Thursday, May 26, 2011
8. How is it different?
• Covers broader range of relationships
• Easy to get started
• Real profiles screened by machine and
humans
• Fast, effective search oriented tools
Thursday, May 26, 2011
9. Jazzed Stats
• Started Fall 2009
• Beta Summer 2010
• Launched October 2010
• 100,000s of Profiles
• 1,000s of Searches Daily
Thursday, May 26, 2011
10. Jazzed Architecture
• Event-driven SOA
• REST, JSON, EIP, Not-only-SQL
• Technology incubation
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11. Tech Stack
• Java 6, Spring 3, Jersey 1.1, JMS
(AQMP)
• RHEL 4, Oracle 11g, Voldemort 0.81,
Solr 1.4.1, NFS
Thursday, May 26, 2011
17. Open Source
• Strengthens Engineering Team
• Be apart of great community
• Not Brochure-ware
Thursday, May 26, 2011
18. Not Only SQL
• One solution does not fit all
• Prefer availability over consistency
• Horizontal Scaling over Vertical
Thursday, May 26, 2011
19. Flexible Ranking
• Query Strategies
• Boolean Algebra
• Vector Space Analysis
• Hybrids
• Extensive Function Support
• Index and Query Boosting
Thursday, May 26, 2011
20. ...Oh My!
• Standard Plugins - Geospatial*,
Faceting, Spelling, MoreLikeThis
• Full Text with Highlighted Results
• Client agnostic
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21. Inevitable Question
• “Does it scale?”
• Solr POC Benchmark
• 10 Million profiles
• >200 queries/sec under 100ms 90th
• Default tuning until 5 million profiles
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22. Profile Service
• RESTful Hybrid Data Service
• Public, Private, Attributes
• Event Producer
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23. Profiles
• Mostly structured
• Categories - Eye Color, Desired
Ethnicity
• Dates - Birthdate
• Numbers - Coordinates, Age Range
• Text -Name, Headline
Thursday, May 26, 2011
24. Inverting People
Term Document
MALE 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
FEMALE 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
• Stored as an HAIR_RED 8
inverted index HAIR_BLOND 1, 2, 5, 6
EYE_BLUE 1, 2, 3, 10
• Index random
EYE_BROWN 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
accessed by term fun 1, 3, 7, 9
funny 2, 4, 6, 10
beach 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Thursday, May 26, 2011
25. Schema Design
• Single “Table”
• One-to-many = multi-value fields
• Individual vs Composite Fields
• copyTo and have both!
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26. Field considerations
• Stored or not
• Indexed or not
• Multivalued - desires fields
• Type
Thursday, May 26, 2011
27. Solr Types Used
The ‘t’ is for Trie
• tdate, tint, tfloat* - birthdate, loginAt
• text - all text
• string - id, non indexed text
• random - good for random sorts
• enum - for all enumerations
Thursday, May 26, 2011
28. Data Duplication
• By function - numberPhotos &
hasPhotos
• By relationship - hiddenBy & hidden
• By analysis - name & text
Thursday, May 26, 2011
29. Saving Profiles
• Updating is in memory operation
• No partial updates
• Commit means flush index changes
• Autocommit on maxDocs, maxTime or
both
Thursday, May 26, 2011
30. Why Also Voldemort
• Private profiles can not be stale
• Many fields not searchable or viewable
by others
• Isolate queries from fetch by id
Thursday, May 26, 2011
31. Querying
• Superset of Lucene
• Efficient Range Queries
• Multiple Query Handlers
• Dismax, Boost, Geo
Thursday, May 26, 2011
32. Recall vs Precision
• Focus on recall when corpus is small
• Precision once it is at critical mass
Thursday, May 26, 2011
33. Boolean Queries
• Default operator set to AND
• +gender:FEMALE +seeking:MALE
+eyeColor:EYE_BLUE +hairColor:
(HAIR_RED, HAIR_BLONDE)
• Sort order is important
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34. Hybrid Queries
• Default operator set to OR
• +gender:FEMALE +seeking:MALE
eyeColor:EYE_BLUE hairColor:
(HAIR_RED, HAIR_BLONDE)
Thursday, May 26, 2011
35. Why you’re lucky if you
like redheads
• Inverse Document
Frequency (IDF) 1.Blue eyed, redheads
2.Blue eyed, blonds
• Rarer is favored
3.Redheads
over more common
4.Blonds
• More fields
matched = higher
ranking
Thursday, May 26, 2011
36. Boosting
• Query time by importance
• eyeColor:EYE_BLUE^2
hairColor:HAIR_BLOND
Thursday, May 26, 2011
37. Filter Fields
id hidden
1 2, 4, 6
• Useful for roles and
other lists 2 1
• -hidden:(2 4 6)
Thursday, May 26, 2011
38. Filter Fields
id hidden
1 2, 4, 6
• Useful for roles and
other lists 2 1
• -hidden:(2 4 6) id hiddenBy
1 2
• -hiddenBy:1
2 1
4 1
6 1
Thursday, May 26, 2011
39. Date Math
• Simplifies query preprocessing
• +birthDate:[NOW/DAY+1DAY-36YEAR
TO NOW/DAY-25YEAR]
Thursday, May 26, 2011
40. Date Math
• Simplifies query preprocessing
• +birthDate:[NOW/DAY+1DAY-36YEAR
TO NOW/DAY-25YEAR]
Between 25 and 35 years old
Thursday, May 26, 2011
41. Distance Searching
• lat, lon, distance
• SolrLocal by Patrick O’Leary
• Additional overhead ~90ms per query
• Superceded in Solr 3.1
Thursday, May 26, 2011
42. Testing Queries
• Log queries and ids returned
• Version your search strategies
• Improve one thing at a time
Thursday, May 26, 2011
43. Geo Service
• Read-mostly service
• Fields - Postal Code, Country,
State, Cities, Lat, Lon
• Usage - Registration
Validation, City Selection
Thursday, May 26, 2011
45. Operations
• Active/Passive
• Layer 7 Load balancing
• Nightly snapshots
• Eventually SolrCloud
Thursday, May 26, 2011
46. Multicore
• Run multiple schemas on the same
• Hot swappable for backwards
compatible changes
• private / public profiles
Thursday, May 26, 2011
47. Security
• No security provided
• At minimum secure <delete>
<query>*:*</query>
your UpdateHandler </delete>
• Separate Cores
Thursday, May 26, 2011