Following is summary
Day started with SOLRCloud at Apple presentation
by Apple team. It is solid presentation in
terms of challenges faced during
SOlrCloud implementation at Apple. Still they are implementing and seems to be they
needed lots of new features (disaster& recovery space) and they are trying
to automate as much as possible. They
gave Some JIRA tasks and they are contributing something back to community.
Finally something back to community.
This session followed by lucid works presentation
on scaling SOLR cloud for massive data. This story builds on top of Apple. Good
one. After above general session, I attend following separate tracks.
Solid presentation by mark miller.
This is just OK. I felt it is pure hypothetical use case. He
was saying some existing customer moved from Solr 3.1 to Solr 4.10 simply
copying Solr 3.1 config & schema,xml files in to Solr 4.10 etc. etc. I asked interesting questions after the
session. Still lots of things are hidden.
Solid POC, proof of concepts, effort. (Basically with using freebase, he is trying
to classify the content.) At some point,
I worked on similar POCs. Mostly likely
some site will use for some kind subscription based searches… I don’t think
this make it big.
General talk on spatial search. Good one...
Overall I am facing different problems in this space. For my employer
geodistance is not much useful. I need a truce driving distance based search
results. After the session also, I talked to David on this one. Seems to be
this is not possible in the current SOLR Geo plugin space… I am thinking
forking David’s original code and make it customer specific.
Actually I know the challenges in Relevancy and
it is difficult to cover in 30 minutes session.
Since not many alternatives and another friend dragged me to the
session. Routine talk. Search is not
good enough. Relevancy is needed & you need to consider signal, end users,
click throw, conversion rates … Don’t expect anything from Ph.D. guy in 30
minutes talk.
Simply superb.
Presentation started with problem statement. I.e. problem with image
search & quick demo of how color search makes the difference. After demo he
explained how they implemented with using SOLR.
Simply I loved the approach.
10 Keys to Solr’s Future Grant Ingersoll, Lucidworks Typical Grant talk. Nothing special. I was
not expecting too.
After Apple talk, I talked to the Apple Sorl team, 2 folks, about the size of the search team. His response was Oh we are 8 to 10 people. We are small & our productivity is great etc… I stopped listening to him. He does not know
he is talking to someone who delivered 3 large scale SOLR enterprise implementations single handly….
Overall an average 2ed day. Talked to few
people on their SOlr challenges.
One of the interesting conversation is
enterprise cloud search implementation by Hitachi folks.
Final thoughts… For 3 years in a row, I was
attending lucenerevolution & now I am feeling most of the session are repeated.
(May be I am doing too many things in SOLR.)
At this point, my take is I will not attend
next year lucenerevolution. (90%, I decided on this one.)
I will enclose few picture later.
