Friday, July 14, 2017

Few dumbest SOLR/Cassandra implementations

1      I was in the Architecture review board and a project came for review.
It is kind of upgrade or tech refresh project.

Core ides is they moving simple Web application is moving old version of OS, WebLogic (yes. still companies use this king of heavy weight containers
IT BOM contains SOLR too. (Moving from Solr 3.2 to Solr 6.2)
Since I am not well versed with business domain, after meeting. I was asking
What is the motivation to go to Solr 6.x?
Answer was simple refresh & may be we will use new features. Solr cloud etc.
I asked how it is deployed. Answer was SOLR is running 3 different contains separately and they are load balanced.  I was asking it is master/slave etc. Answer is no.
We index all the content separately and monthly we update the content on each web logic instance. I said, this is incorrect thing. Are you going to fix with new Cloud architecture etc?

Answer is no. Still 3 isolated SOLR instances running separately in separate Elephant container and load balanced. I was shell shocked.  
Pure dumbest to the core.

I will expand this post later with more dump roll-outs.

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