Re: book on solr

2017-10-13 Thread Deepak Vohra
Use Docker with Kubernetes, which has autoscaling of Docker containers based on 
load.  Docker image for Solr is https://hub.docker.com/_/solr/

On Thu, 10/12/17, Jay Potharaju <jspothar...@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: book on solr
 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
 Received: Thursday, October 12, 2017, 10:42 PM
 
 Hi,
 I am looking for a book that covers
 some basic principles on how to scale
 solr. Are there any suggestions.
 Example how to scale , by adding shards
 or replicas in the case of high rps
 and high index rates.
 
 Any blog or documentation also that
 would provide some basic rules or
 guidelines for scaling would also be
 great.
 
 Thanks
 Jay Potharaju
 


Re: book on solr

2017-10-13 Thread Rick Leir
Jay, get info on this with a search: 
https://www.google.ca/search?q=solr+shard+size


cheers -- Rick

On 2017-10-13 01:42 AM, Jay Potharaju wrote:

Any blog or documentation also that would provide some basic rules or
guidelines for scaling would also be great.

Thanks
Jay Potharaju





book on solr

2017-10-12 Thread Jay Potharaju
Hi,
I am looking for a book that covers some basic principles on how to scale
solr. Are there any suggestions.
Example how to scale , by adding shards or replicas in the case of high rps
and high index rates.

Any blog or documentation also that would provide some basic rules or
guidelines for scaling would also be great.

Thanks
Jay Potharaju


Re: book for Solr 3.4?

2016-11-16 Thread Dorian Hoxha
@HelponR
Curious why you're interested in an old version ?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:43 PM, HelponR <suncert...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you. Just found one here https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrResources
>
> "Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server
> <https://wiki.apache.org/solr/AS3ESSBook2011> by David Smiley and Eric
> Pugh. This is the 2nd edition of the first book, published by Packt.
> Essential reading for developers, this book covers nearly every feature up
> thru Solr 3.4. "
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Deeksha Sharma <dsha...@palamida.com>
> wrote:
>
> > BTW its Apache Solr 4 Cookbook
> > 
> > From: Deeksha Sharma <dsha...@palamida.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:06 PM
> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: book for Solr 3.4?
> >
> > Apache solr cookbook will definitely help you get started. This is in
> > addition to the Apache Solr official documentation.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Deeksha
> > ____
> > From: HelponR <suncert...@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:03 PM
> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> > Subject: book for Solr 3.4?
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Is there a good book for Solr 3.4? The "Solr in Action" is for 4.4.
> >
> > googling did not help:(
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>


Re: book for Solr 3.4?

2016-11-15 Thread HelponR
Thank you. Just found one here https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrResources

"Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server
<https://wiki.apache.org/solr/AS3ESSBook2011> by David Smiley and Eric
Pugh. This is the 2nd edition of the first book, published by Packt.
Essential reading for developers, this book covers nearly every feature up
thru Solr 3.4. "


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Deeksha Sharma <dsha...@palamida.com>
wrote:

> BTW its Apache Solr 4 Cookbook
> 
> From: Deeksha Sharma <dsha...@palamida.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:06 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: book for Solr 3.4?
>
> Apache solr cookbook will definitely help you get started. This is in
> addition to the Apache Solr official documentation.
>
>
> Thanks
> Deeksha
> 
> From: HelponR <suncert...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:03 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: book for Solr 3.4?
>
> Hello!
>
> Is there a good book for Solr 3.4? The "Solr in Action" is for 4.4.
>
> googling did not help:(
>
> Thanks!
>


Re: book for Solr 3.4?

2016-11-15 Thread Deeksha Sharma
BTW its Apache Solr 4 Cookbook

From: Deeksha Sharma <dsha...@palamida.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:06 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: book for Solr 3.4?

Apache solr cookbook will definitely help you get started. This is in addition 
to the Apache Solr official documentation.


Thanks
Deeksha

From: HelponR <suncert...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:03 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: book for Solr 3.4?

Hello!

Is there a good book for Solr 3.4? The "Solr in Action" is for 4.4.

googling did not help:(

Thanks!


Re: book for Solr 3.4?

2016-11-15 Thread Deeksha Sharma
Apache solr cookbook will definitely help you get started. This is in addition 
to the Apache Solr official documentation.


Thanks
Deeksha

From: HelponR <suncert...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:03 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: book for Solr 3.4?

Hello!

Is there a good book for Solr 3.4? The "Solr in Action" is for 4.4.

googling did not help:(

Thanks!


book for Solr 3.4?

2016-11-15 Thread HelponR
Hello!

Is there a good book for Solr 3.4? The "Solr in Action" is for 4.4.

googling did not help:(

Thanks!


Re: [ANNOUNCE] Book: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, Third Edition

2015-06-25 Thread david.w.smi...@gmail.com
If you order on Packt’s site then you can save a lot with these discount
codes — good thru July 30th:

30% on Print books: ASESP30
20% on Ebooks: ASESE20

https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition

~ David

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:19 AM david.w.smi...@gmail.com 
david.w.smi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Solr community,

 David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, and Matt Mitchell are happy to
 *finally* announce the book “Apache Sor Enterprise Search Server, Third
 Edition” by Packt Publishing.  You can find links to buy it Packt’s site 
 Amazon from our book’s official website:

  http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com

 Preface:

 If you are a developer building an application today, then you know how
 important a good search experience is. Apache Solr, built on Apache Lucene,
 is a wildly popular open source enterprise search server that easily
 delivers the powerful search and faceted navigation features that are
 elusive with databases. Solr supports complex search criteria, faceting,
 result highlighting, query-completion, query spellcheck, relevancy tuning,
 and more.

 Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, Third Edition is a comprehensive
 resource to almost everything Solr has to offer. It serves the reader right
 from initiation to development to deployment. It also comes with complete
 running examples to demonstrate its use and show how to integrate Solr with
 other languages and frameworks — even Hadoop.

 By using a large set of metadata, including artists, releases, and tracks,
 courtesy of the MusicBrainz.org project, you will have a testing ground for
 Solr and will learn how to import this data in various ways. You will then
 learn how to search this data in different ways, including Solr's rich
 query syntax and boosting match scores based on record data. Finally, we'll
 cover various deployment considerations to include indexing strategies and
 performance-oriented configuration that will enable you to scale Solr to
 meet the needs of a high-volume site.

 Solr 4 or Solr 5?:

 Apache Solr 4.8.1 is officially the version of Solr this book was written
 for. Nonetheless, some of the features are discussed or referenced in the
 later versions of Solr as far as 5.0. In fact, Chapter 1, Quick Starting
 Solr, orients you to Solr 5, which has a different first-impression
 experience than its predecessor. Once you get Solr running, you should be
 able to follow along easily with Solr 5. In Chapter 10, Scaling Solr, there
 are some SolrCloud startup commands that are a little different, and we've
 pointed out how they change. The only substantial topic not covered in this
 book that evolved through the Solr 4 point releases is data-driven
 schemaless mode, and HTTP API calls to make schema changes.

 How this edition has improved:

 Solr 4 was Solr's biggest release ever. We updated the previous edition to
 cover Solr 4, and some of Solr 5 -- particularly the part of Solr 5 that
 needs to be covered most, the bin/solr script. Chapter 9, Integrating Solr,
 now covers Hadoop integration, and better covers SolrJ. Chapter 3, Text
 Analysis, introduces various approaches for implementing Multilingual
 Search in your applications. And we think you'll appreciate the enhanced
 coverage of the topic of query auto-suggesters (AKA query completion) in
 Chapter 8, Search Components -- a feature that is important to most search
 applications. This edition has two additional authors, Kranti  Matt, who
 add their perspectives based on their experience working with Solr for a
 long time.

 Who this book is for:

 This book is primarily for developers who want to learn how to use Apache
 Solr in their applications. Only basic programming skills are assumed,
 although the vast majority of content should be useful to those with a
 solid technical foundation that have not yet programmed.

 ~ David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, and Matt Mitchell

 http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com




[ANNOUNCE] Book: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, Third Edition

2015-06-22 Thread david.w.smi...@gmail.com
Solr community,

David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, and Matt Mitchell are happy to
*finally* announce the book “Apache Sor Enterprise Search Server, Third
Edition” by Packt Publishing.  You can find links to buy it Packt’s site 
Amazon from our book’s official website:

 http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com

Preface:

If you are a developer building an application today, then you know how
important a good search experience is. Apache Solr, built on Apache Lucene,
is a wildly popular open source enterprise search server that easily
delivers the powerful search and faceted navigation features that are
elusive with databases. Solr supports complex search criteria, faceting,
result highlighting, query-completion, query spellcheck, relevancy tuning,
and more.

Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, Third Edition is a comprehensive
resource to almost everything Solr has to offer. It serves the reader right
from initiation to development to deployment. It also comes with complete
running examples to demonstrate its use and show how to integrate Solr with
other languages and frameworks — even Hadoop.

By using a large set of metadata, including artists, releases, and tracks,
courtesy of the MusicBrainz.org project, you will have a testing ground for
Solr and will learn how to import this data in various ways. You will then
learn how to search this data in different ways, including Solr's rich
query syntax and boosting match scores based on record data. Finally, we'll
cover various deployment considerations to include indexing strategies and
performance-oriented configuration that will enable you to scale Solr to
meet the needs of a high-volume site.

Solr 4 or Solr 5?:

Apache Solr 4.8.1 is officially the version of Solr this book was written
for. Nonetheless, some of the features are discussed or referenced in the
later versions of Solr as far as 5.0. In fact, Chapter 1, Quick Starting
Solr, orients you to Solr 5, which has a different first-impression
experience than its predecessor. Once you get Solr running, you should be
able to follow along easily with Solr 5. In Chapter 10, Scaling Solr, there
are some SolrCloud startup commands that are a little different, and we've
pointed out how they change. The only substantial topic not covered in this
book that evolved through the Solr 4 point releases is data-driven
schemaless mode, and HTTP API calls to make schema changes.

How this edition has improved:

Solr 4 was Solr's biggest release ever. We updated the previous edition to
cover Solr 4, and some of Solr 5 -- particularly the part of Solr 5 that
needs to be covered most, the bin/solr script. Chapter 9, Integrating Solr,
now covers Hadoop integration, and better covers SolrJ. Chapter 3, Text
Analysis, introduces various approaches for implementing Multilingual
Search in your applications. And we think you'll appreciate the enhanced
coverage of the topic of query auto-suggesters (AKA query completion) in
Chapter 8, Search Components -- a feature that is important to most search
applications. This edition has two additional authors, Kranti  Matt, who
add their perspectives based on their experience working with Solr for a
long time.

Who this book is for:

This book is primarily for developers who want to learn how to use Apache
Solr in their applications. Only basic programming skills are assumed,
although the vast majority of content should be useful to those with a
solid technical foundation that have not yet programmed.

~ David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, and Matt Mitchell

http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com


[ANN] Solr in Action book release (Solr 4.7)

2015-06-18 Thread Roy Silva



Sent from my iPhone


[ANN] Solr in Action book release (Solr 4.7)

2014-03-27 Thread Trey Grainger
I'm excited to announce the final print release of *Solr in Action*, the
newest Solr book by Manning publications covering through Solr 4.7 (the
current version). The book is available for immediate purchase in print and
ebook formats, and the *outline*, some *free chapters* as well as the *full
source code are also available* at http://solrinaction.com.

I would love it if you would check the book out, and I would also
appreciate your feedback on it, especially if you find the book to be a
useful guide as you are working with Solr! Timothy Potter and I (Trey
Grainger) worked tirelessly on the book for nearly 2 years to bring you a
thorough (664 pg.) and fantastic example-driven guide to the best Solr has
to offer.

*Solr in Action* is intentionally designed to be a learning guide as
opposed to a reference manual. It builds from an initial introduction to
Solr all the way to advanced topics such as implementing a predictive
search experience, writing your own Solr plugins for function queries and
multilingual text analysis, using Solr for big data analytics, and even
building your own Solr-based recommendation engine. The book uses fun
real-world examples, including analyzing the text of tweets, searching and
faceting on restaurants, grouping similar items in an ecommerce
application, highlighting interesting keywords in UFO sighting reports, and
even building a personalized job search experience.

For a more detailed write-up about the book and it's contents, you can also
visit the Solr homepage at
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/books.html#solr-in-action. Thanks in advance
for checking it out, and I really hope many of you find the book to be
personally useful!

All the best,

Trey Grainger
Co-author,
*Solr in Action*Director of Engineering, Search  Analytics @CareerBuilder


Re: [ANN] Solr in Action book release (Solr 4.7)

2014-03-27 Thread Mark Miller
Nice, Congrats!
-- 
Mark Miller
about.me/markrmiller

On March 27, 2014 at 11:17:49 AM, Trey Grainger (solrt...@gmail.com) wrote:

I'm excited to announce the final print release of *Solr in Action*, the  
newest Solr book by Manning publications covering through Solr 4.7 (the  
current version). The book is available for immediate purchase in print and  
ebook formats, and the *outline*, some *free chapters* as well as the *full  
source code are also available* at http://solrinaction.com.  

I would love it if you would check the book out, and I would also  
appreciate your feedback on it, especially if you find the book to be a  
useful guide as you are working with Solr! Timothy Potter and I (Trey  
Grainger) worked tirelessly on the book for nearly 2 years to bring you a  
thorough (664 pg.) and fantastic example-driven guide to the best Solr has  
to offer.  

*Solr in Action* is intentionally designed to be a learning guide as  
opposed to a reference manual. It builds from an initial introduction to  
Solr all the way to advanced topics such as implementing a predictive  
search experience, writing your own Solr plugins for function queries and  
multilingual text analysis, using Solr for big data analytics, and even  
building your own Solr-based recommendation engine. The book uses fun  
real-world examples, including analyzing the text of tweets, searching and  
faceting on restaurants, grouping similar items in an ecommerce  
application, highlighting interesting keywords in UFO sighting reports, and  
even building a personalized job search experience.  

For a more detailed write-up about the book and it's contents, you can also  
visit the Solr homepage at  
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/books.html#solr-in-action. Thanks in advance  
for checking it out, and I really hope many of you find the book to be  
personally useful!  

All the best,  

Trey Grainger  
Co-author,  
*Solr in Action*Director of Engineering, Search  Analytics @CareerBuilder  


Re: [ANN] Solr in Action book release (Solr 4.7)

2014-03-27 Thread Trey Grainger
Hi Philippe,

Yes if you've purchased the eBook then the PDF is available now and the
other formats (ePub and Kindle) are supposed to be available for download
on April 8th.
It's also worth mentioning that the eBook formats are all available for
free with the purchase of the print book.

Best regards,

Trey Grainger
Co-author, Solr in Action
Director of Engineering, Search  Analytics @CareerBuilder


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Philippe Soares soa...@genomequest.com
wrote:

 Thanks Trey !
 I just tried to download my copy from my manning account, and this final
 version appears only in PDF format.
 Any idea about when they'll release the other formats ?


Re: [ANN] Solr in Action book release (Solr 4.7)

2014-03-27 Thread Jagat Singh
Many Congrats,

600+ pages can make me feel the tireless two years handwork behind it.



On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Trey Grainger solrt...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Philippe,

 Yes if you've purchased the eBook then the PDF is available now and the
 other formats (ePub and Kindle) are supposed to be available for download
 on April 8th.
 It's also worth mentioning that the eBook formats are all available for
 free with the purchase of the print book.

 Best regards,

 Trey Grainger
 Co-author, Solr in Action
 Director of Engineering, Search  Analytics @CareerBuilder


 On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Philippe Soares soa...@genomequest.com
 wrote:
 
  Thanks Trey !
  I just tried to download my copy from my manning account, and this final
  version appears only in PDF format.
  Any idea about when they'll release the other formats ?



Re: Book progress (Solr 4.x Deep Dive) - see my blog

2013-06-25 Thread Bernd Fehling

Am 24.06.2013 16:37, schrieb Jack Krupansky:
 I won’t continue to bore annoy anybody on this list with tedious comments 
 about my new Solr book on Lulu.com... please bookmark my blog, 
 http://basetechnology.blogspot.com/, for further updates on the book.
 
 The book itself is here:
 http://www.lulu.com/shop/jack-krupansky/solr-4x-deep-dive-early-access-release-1/ebook/product-21079719.html
 
 Feel free to comment on the blog with any questions, issues, or mistakes in 
 the book.
 
 Thanks, especially for your support!
 
 -- Jack Krupansky
 

Where to report errata and corrections to EAR #1?

Regards,
Bernd


Re: Book progress (Solr 4.x Deep Dive) - see my blog

2013-06-25 Thread Jack Krupansky
Please report any comments or issues to my email address or comment on my 
blog. Comments on the blog will benefit other readers, but the choice is 
yours.


Thanks!

-- Jack Krupansky

-Original Message- 
From: Bernd Fehling

Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:06 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Book progress (Solr 4.x Deep Dive) - see my blog


Am 24.06.2013 16:37, schrieb Jack Krupansky:
I won’t continue to bore annoy anybody on this list with tedious comments 
about my new Solr book on Lulu.com... please bookmark my blog, 
http://basetechnology.blogspot.com/, for further updates on the book.


The book itself is here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/jack-krupansky/solr-4x-deep-dive-early-access-release-1/ebook/product-21079719.html

Feel free to comment on the blog with any questions, issues, or mistakes 
in the book.


Thanks, especially for your support!

-- Jack Krupansky



Where to report errata and corrections to EAR #1?

Regards,
Bernd 



Book progress (Solr 4.x Deep Dive) - see my blog

2013-06-24 Thread Jack Krupansky
I won’t continue to bore annoy anybody on this list with tedious comments about 
my new Solr book on Lulu.com... please bookmark my blog, 
http://basetechnology.blogspot.com/, for further updates on the book.

The book itself is here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/jack-krupansky/solr-4x-deep-dive-early-access-release-1/ebook/product-21079719.html

Feel free to comment on the blog with any questions, issues, or mistakes in the 
book.

Thanks, especially for your support!

-- Jack Krupansky

Re: Book progress (Solr 4.x Deep Dive) - see my blog

2013-06-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 24 June 2013 20:07, Jack Krupansky j...@basetechnology.com wrote:
 I won’t continue to bore annoy anybody on this list with tedious comments 
 about my new Solr book on Lulu.com... please bookmark my blog, 
 http://basetechnology.blogspot.com/, for further updates on the book.
[...]

Speaking only for myself, but at least occasional
updates to this list would be welcome, say whenever
a significant new release comes out. I tend to forget
to catch up on blogs that I really should be reading.

Regards,
Gora


Re: Book progress (Solr 4.x Deep Dive) - see my blog

2013-06-24 Thread Lee Fisher
+1


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote:

 On 24 June 2013 20:07, Jack Krupansky j...@basetechnology.com wrote:
  I won’t continue to bore annoy anybody on this list with tedious
 comments about my new Solr book on Lulu.com... please bookmark my blog,
 http://basetechnology.blogspot.com/, for further updates on the book.
 [...]

 Speaking only for myself, but at least occasional
 updates to this list would be welcome, say whenever
 a significant new release comes out. I tend to forget
 to catch up on blogs that I really should be reading.

 Regards,
 Gora



Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Second Edition of the First Book on Solr

2011-11-22 Thread Jan Høydahl
Congratulations!

Feel free to write a shorter version of the announcement text, suitable as a 
news teaser on the Solr site, and we'll try to update the site with new thumb 
and all.

--
Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com

On 18. nov. 2011, at 06:17, Smiley, David W. wrote:

 Fellow Solr users,
 
 I am proud to announce that the book Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server 
 is officially published!  This is the second edition of the first book on 
 Solr by me, David Smiley, and my co-author Eric Pugh.  You can find full 
 details about the book, download a free chapter, and purchase it here:
   http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book
 It is also available through other channels like Amazon.  You can feel good 
 about the purchase knowing that 5% of each sale goes to support the Apache 
 Software Foundation.  If you buy directly from the publisher, then the basis 
 of the percentage that goes to the ASF (and to me) is higher than if you buy 
 it through other channels.  
 
 This book naturally covers the latest features in Solr as of version 3.4 like 
 Result Grouping and Geospatial, but this is not a small update to the first 
 book.  We have more experience with Solr and we've listened to reader 
 feedback from the first edition.  No chapter was untouched: Faceting gets its 
 own chapter, all search relevancy matters are discussed in one chapter, 
 auto-complete approaches are all discussed together, much of the chapter on 
 integration was rewritten to discuss newer technologies, and the first 
 chapter was greatly streamlined.  Furthermore, each chapter has a tip in the 
 introduction that advises readers in a hurry on what parts should be read now 
 or later.  Finally, we developed a 2-page parameter quick-reference appendix 
 that you will surely find useful printed on your desk.  In summary, we 
 improved the existing content, and added about 25% more by page count.
 
 Software, errata, and other information about this book and the previous 
 edition is on our website:
   http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com/
 We've been working hard on this book for the last 10 months and we hope it 
 really helps saves you time and improves your search project!
 
   Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server In Detail:
 
 If you are a developer building an app today then you know how important a 
 good search experience is.  Apache Solr, built on Apache Lucene, is a wildly 
 popular open source enterprise search server that easily delivers powerful 
 search and faceted navigation features that are elusive with databases.  Solr 
 supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, 
 query-completion, query spell-check, relevancy tuning, and more.
 
 Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server is a comprehensive reference guide for 
 every feature Solr has to offer.  It serves the reader right from initiation 
 to development to deployment.  It also comes with complete running examples 
 to demonstrate its use and show how to integrate Solr with other languages 
 and frameworks.
 
 Through using a large set of metadata about artists, releases, and tracks 
 courtesy of the MusicBrainz.org project, you will have a testing ground for 
 Solr, and will learn how to import this data in various ways.  You will then 
 learn how to search this data in different ways, including Solr's rich query 
 syntax and boosting match scores based on record data.  Finally, we'll 
 cover various deployment considerations to include indexing strategies and 
 performance-oriented configuration that will enable you to scale Solr to meet 
 the needs of a high-volume site.
 
 Sincerely,
 
   David Smiley (primary author)   david.w.smi...@gmail.com
   Eric Pugh (co-author)   ep...@opensourceconnections.com
 



[ANNOUNCEMENT] Second Edition of the First Book on Solr

2011-11-17 Thread Smiley, David W.
Fellow Solr users,

I am proud to announce that the book Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server 
is officially published!  This is the second edition of the first book on Solr 
by me, David Smiley, and my co-author Eric Pugh.  You can find full details 
about the book, download a free chapter, and purchase it here:
  http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book
It is also available through other channels like Amazon.  You can feel good 
about the purchase knowing that 5% of each sale goes to support the Apache 
Software Foundation.  If you buy directly from the publisher, then the basis of 
the percentage that goes to the ASF (and to me) is higher than if you buy it 
through other channels.  

This book naturally covers the latest features in Solr as of version 3.4 like 
Result Grouping and Geospatial, but this is not a small update to the first 
book.  We have more experience with Solr and we've listened to reader feedback 
from the first edition.  No chapter was untouched: Faceting gets its own 
chapter, all search relevancy matters are discussed in one chapter, 
auto-complete approaches are all discussed together, much of the chapter on 
integration was rewritten to discuss newer technologies, and the first chapter 
was greatly streamlined.  Furthermore, each chapter has a tip in the 
introduction that advises readers in a hurry on what parts should be read now 
or later.  Finally, we developed a 2-page parameter quick-reference appendix 
that you will surely find useful printed on your desk.  In summary, we improved 
the existing content, and added about 25% more by page count.

Software, errata, and other information about this book and the previous 
edition is on our website:
  http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com/
We've been working hard on this book for the last 10 months and we hope it 
really helps saves you time and improves your search project!

Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server In Detail:

If you are a developer building an app today then you know how important a good 
search experience is.  Apache Solr, built on Apache Lucene, is a wildly popular 
open source enterprise search server that easily delivers powerful search and 
faceted navigation features that are elusive with databases.  Solr supports 
complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query 
spell-check, relevancy tuning, and more.

Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server is a comprehensive reference guide for 
every feature Solr has to offer.  It serves the reader right from initiation to 
development to deployment.  It also comes with complete running examples to 
demonstrate its use and show how to integrate Solr with other languages and 
frameworks.

Through using a large set of metadata about artists, releases, and tracks 
courtesy of the MusicBrainz.org project, you will have a testing ground for 
Solr, and will learn how to import this data in various ways.  You will then 
learn how to search this data in different ways, including Solr's rich query 
syntax and boosting match scores based on record data.  Finally, we'll cover 
various deployment considerations to include indexing strategies and 
performance-oriented configuration that will enable you to scale Solr to meet 
the needs of a high-volume site.

Sincerely,

David Smiley (primary author)   david.w.smi...@gmail.com
Eric Pugh (co-author)   ep...@opensourceconnections.com