Finally. You will not lose my knowledge. I am and will share as much as I
can with my teammates. And if you want to talk to me about Solr and Lucene
I will talk your ear off. I’m not against anyone here.

Mark

On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:04 PM Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> And I don't know you were on Twitter :) Bravo, because I should be able to
> guess. Like that actually is going haunt me a little and it shouldn't. It
> should be easy. And like I have a guess and then doesn't seem to quite
> fit...I mean I didn't read everything towards the end, but good job. It's
> like 3 of you where doing that.
>
> - Mark
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 5:35 PM Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And don't worry, there are a lot of people in my wake that don't want to
>> fight with me, I'm not fun to fight with, I don't want fight with you
>> either. I'm disappointed in myself and in what I've accomplished in a
>> decade - pretty much 0 of that is on anyone here but me. I did not intend
>> to take it out on anyone here.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 5:16 PM Mark Miller <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> New people to Solr and maybe some old ones :)
>>>
>>> This is an old project. There is a lot of stuff in the history. This
>>> whole thing is more about me than anyone else. This software is
>>> salvageable, I've seen it. I've seen the stuff in the software to know you
>>> can do it - a lot of what you need is there, just not thoroughly done, or
>>> its a little off, or whatever. You know, its people trying and having good
>>> ideas, but a lot of them not taking root.
>>>
>>> So don't be scared, this community is good, for some reason there is
>>> weird Solr road block, but I'm pretty confident you will get through it
>>> now. And you won't have all my code, you don't need all my code, and the
>>> code I have, I'm sure you will end up with. I'm entrusting it to good hands.
>>>
>>> - mark
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 7:30 PM Mark Miller <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Lucene/Solr Community,
>>>>
>>>> I have been searching for an answer for Solr and SolrCloud for a long
>>>> time. I feel like I landed in a tornado and I don’t know where the time
>>>> went. I forget even why I’m here. Because I didn’t come here to work for
>>>> silicon valley companies, or make a lot of money, or impress people I don’t
>>>> know. I came here for Lucene. I love Lucene. I love developing. I love
>>>> Lucene tests. I don’t do much Lucene anymore. I was needed more in Solr,
>>>> and someone started acting like a dictator.
>>>>
>>>> I still love Lucene. I’ve tried to love to Solr. But I don’t. And so
>>>> I’ve been searching for an answer, when not being depressed about it, and
>>>> as often happens, it was right in front of me.
>>>>
>>>> So yeah, a couple times when I got sick of you guys - which is no one
>>>> and everyone - I went off on my own and started chasing one of my own
>>>> itches, which leads to things, which leads to things, which leads things. I
>>>> love that I have no idea at the start.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, after time and some learning I kind of got to the point where I
>>>> knew enough about the stupid technologies and the whole system - it’s like
>>>> a lot of code, a lot of debt, blah blah. But I’m banging my head against
>>>> this - intuition guy - like, just bang bang bang, starts to make sense and
>>>> I don’t even do any work. So starts to makes sense. I start to address
>>>> this. And that. I make some progress. I find some things. I say screw
>>>> working on making this work anymore, it’s impossible, I’m sick of it, I’m
>>>> finally gonna do the thing I love. Make it fast.
>>>>
>>>> So I start making it fast here and there, sometimes. Most efforts are
>>>> in like 3-4-5 different huge sprints or something - but always efforts
>>>> around that. You know the lost work story. Lot of lost work.
>>>>
>>>> I usually don’t duplicate all the work when I make another attempt. I
>>>> have enough memories that that is not the important part. The importance is
>>>> that I learned that none of you you know anything about this system or the
>>>> components that make it up. I didn’t either. I knew more than a lot of you,
>>>> but not early enough. And you guys have worked on the very edges on some
>>>> great necessary stuff and tools - and I take heavy goddamn advantage of
>>>> those things. Thank you. And I add things. And I track things. And I turn
>>>> on enforcers. And pluck away. And I strip out all our darn randomization or
>>>> craziness test hierarchy (or start to try and control it), and I start
>>>> adding logging that's useful, and debug logging, and I use a good profiler,
>>>> and I start limiting resources and minimizing shit, until I have a system
>>>> that I can start to understand and work through. And I spend almost just as
>>>> much on making myself efficient, cause it’s big.
>>>>
>>>> But. All basic stuff. Maybe I’m smart somewhere, maybe I’m not. I’m
>>>> lazy. I don’t think. I’m a math minor and most can probably attest I will
>>>> not do a 1 dollar tip in my head. So I’m just learning about the system,
>>>> the components, plucking away, cleaning up, finding bugs, adding stuff that
>>>> will allow me to understand. Starting with basic tests, and like shooting
>>>> for high goals. I want to be able to start 500 solrcores in 10-15 seconds
>>>> in a single corecontainer. Thats what I want. So sometimes I work towards.
>>>> Brings out a lot of great stuff. But the solution is neither fancy or some
>>>> huge credit to me. We dont know anything, we have no good enforcement
>>>> really, and we make it too crazy and wild when it's already crazy and wild
>>>> and the it’s all way more than any human can realistically do anything
>>>> with. Now I wrote a lot of this foundation. It’s not easy for people to
>>>> take me seriously when I say its cause we are shit software developers.
>>>> “Haha, you say cocreator, your software, please tell me how I am the one
>>>> that sucks”. Even I had no confidence this could work so well compared to
>>>> what was happening. I had to basically get there. Get there again cause
>>>> then I didn't care, and then get close again. Like, I don’t trust myself or
>>>> brain. So I didn’t need everything - god my knowledge and code is so spread
>>>> around - but it’s not important. The design not important. I’d like you to
>>>> have whatever design you want. But I know this one can work good enough to
>>>> get you to the next one, and you need to conquer these demons before you
>>>> can do anything on Solr.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>> http://about.me/markrmiller
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Mark
>>
>> http://about.me/markrmiller
>>
>
>
> --
> - Mark
>
> http://about.me/markrmiller
>
-- 
- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

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