Trey is SVP of Engineering at Lucidworks and the co-author of Solr in Action. He sat down with Doug Turnbull and Matt Overstreet in December of last year to discuss Lucene Revolution and more general Solr topics.

In part two of this interview we discuss what’s new in Solr and what’s on the horizon for the next year.

Trey is SVP of Engineering at Lucidworks and the co-author of Solr in Action. He sat down with Doug Turnbull and Matt Overstreet in December of last year to discuss Lucene Revolution and more general Solr topics.

This week on the podcast Doug Turnbull and Matt Overstreet sit down and chat with Martin White. Martin is the author of the book “Enterprise Search” published by O’Reilly Media Martin is an Information Scientist who has been working on computer based search for decades. This discussion steps away from the technical implementation of search and follows Martin down a path to enriching search through the discipline of Information Science.

Lots of great followup links can be found at his site EnterpriseSearchBook.com.

Doug and Matt take a look at a few good things recently added to Solr and Elasticsearch.

Also, Doug goes into more detail on using search engines as recommendor systems.

How to build a search practice with Doug Turnbull, Matt Overstreet and Scott Stultz. Doug released a companion to relevant search about how to actually practice good search http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/07/07/relevance-investments-ebook/.

Shout out to David Smiley.

Technical vs organizational problems with search.

What’s the value of search in your project?

How do you know what good is?

Metrics and baselining search.

Fail fast! No, really.

Dev ops is critical (at least Matt thinks so).

Doug recommends Martin Whites book on enterprise search.

Tweet if you want an ePuba

Used copies are already available on amazon.com for Relevant Search.

The transitive property of relevancy and the meaning of life.

Relevant Search is available now from Manning Publications

“Relevant Search demystifies relevance work. Using Elasticsearch, it teaches you how to return engaging search results to your users, helping you understand and leverage the internals of Lucene-based search engines”

A conversation with Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, authors of Relevant Search from Manning Publications about:

The future for search

What it’s like to write a techinical book, an how they got started doing it

What is different about their book compared to what has been written before, including some book recomendations

Search problems they wish they could solve

If you’ve listened to this podcast before you are know Doug, the search relevancy lead at OpenSource Connections.

John Berryman is an OpenSource Collections Alumni who works on the search and discovery team at EventBrite

Relavant Search is available now from Manning Publications

“Relevant Search demystifies relevance work. Using Elasticsearch, it teaches you how to return engaging search results to your users, helping you understand and leverage the internals of Lucene-based search engines”

Julien Lemoine from Alogia search joins us to talk about how they have implemented text search from scratch.

In our chat we get some history of Algolia and some great details on how that history powers some amazing search performance.

Solr 6 is now available! What’s included, and what can you do with it?

Yonik Seeley and Erik Hatcher join us to talk about what’s new.

This week on Search Disco we chat about:

Facets, aggregations, query facets, pivot facets what’s the difference?

What’s going on in the world of javascript search UI’s? SpyGlass 2.0 and have you seen SearchKit(it’s great!)?

Doug Turnbull, Matt Overstreet and Chris Bradford from OSC are joined by Charlie Hull from Flax. Doug tells us about how he was “Lost in Amazon” and how Northface saved him by knowing just what he wanted in a backpack.

This is also the first public announcement for Grand Central. It’s a

little bit of magic from the Quepid team that creates on demand testing

environments for features(not apps) with their own URL’s. Shared QA without fights!

(https://github.com/o19s/grand_central)