I've worked with a lot of different Solr implementations, and one area that is emerging more and more is using Solr in combination with other "big data" solutions. My company, Lucid Imagination, has added a two-day course to our upcoming Lucene Revolution conference, "Scaling Search with Big Data and Solr", that covers Hadoop & Solr, on May 23-24 - it'll be at Lucene Revolution in San Francisco (the conference is on May 25-26 -- see lucenerevolution.org).
Description: "The class covers Hadoop from the ground up, including MapReduce, the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), cluster management, etc., before continuing on to connect it to Solr. Students will study common use cases for generating search indexes from big data, typical patterns for the data processing workflow, and how to make it all work reliably at scale. We will explore in-depth an example of processing 1 billion records to create a faceted Solr search solution." This course will be presented on May 23 and 24 at the Lucene Revolution conference in San Francisco (the conference is on May 25-26 -- see lucenerevolution.org). Details here: http://lucenerevolution.org/training#solr-scaling I've been asked by a lot of Solr users whether Lucid offers anything like this, so I know there is a lot of interest out there. -Jay
