Dilettante's Ball

Category: Solr

  • Faceted Search on a Shoestring

    There are any number of reasons that you can attribute to Solr‘s status as the standard bearer of faceted full-text searching:  it’s free, fast, works shockingly well out of the box without any tweaking, has a simple and intuitive HTTP API (making it available in the programming language of your choice) and is, by far, the…

  • Going Solr without Solr

    For a long time, I was massively confused about what the Platform was or did.  Months after I started at Talis I was still fairly unclear of what the Platform actually did.  I’ve now got my head around it, use it, and have a pretty good understanding of why and how it’s useful, but I…