A quick information for those of you who are interested in my latest Solr book, the Solr Cookbook Third Edition. Packt Publishing is offering the book for less than 6 euros, starting on 17th December till the end of the year. If you are interested, you can buy the book with the discounted price at Solr Cookbook Third Edition Sale website.
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Solr Cookbook, Third Edition
As usual when we are not updating solr.pl for a long time that doesn’t mean that we are not doing anything. Similar to the previous period of silence we were writing. This time, after two years of from Apache Solr 4 Cookbook publication we are proud to announce that this Monday – 26.01.2015 Solr Cookbook Third Edition will be published.
Win Elasticsearch Server second edition e-book
Together with Packt Publishing we have give away copies of our latest book – “Elasticsearch Server 2nd Edition“. Although it is not about Solr, you can have a chance to learn about it and compare to Solr. For the readers of solr.pl we will modify the competition question – “What unusual use case you’ve implemented using Apache Solr”. You can also give an example of a functionality that can’t be achieved with Elasticsearch.
SolrCloud – What happens when ZooKeeper fails?
One of the questions I tend to get is what happens with SolrCloud cluster when ZooKeeper fails. Of course we are not talking about a single ZooKeeper instance failure, but the whole ensemble not being accessible and so the quorum not present. Because the answer to this question is very easy to verify i decided to make a simple blog post to show what happens when ZooKeeper fails.
Random documents from result set (Giveaway results !)
And now two birds with a single stone – a new article and the Apache Solr 4 Cookbook giveaway results. In this article we would like to show you how to implement random ordering of documents in the resulting using Apache Solr. Our example is real case scenario – we’ve used this to draw two giveaway participants. Those two comment authors that will be of top of the results set will receive the ebook.
Win Free Copies of Packt’s new book on Apache Solr (updated)
Readers would be pleased to know that we have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of the Apache Solr 4 Cookbook. Two lucky winners will win a copy of the book (in eBook format). Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners.
New Book: ElasticSearch Server!
In the blog post dedicated to Solr 4.0 Cookbook we give a small hint that cookbook was not the only project that occupies our free time. Today we can officially say that a few month of hard work is slowly coming to an end – we can announce a new book about one of the greatest piece of open-source software – ElasticSearch Server book!
Solr 4.0 Cookbook
Rich documents processing – on the search or application side?
When indexing so called “rich documents” we should sometimes think about, where we want those documents to be processes – should we send them to Apache Solr (or other search engine, like ElasticSearch) and forget about them or whether we should use Apache Tika before sending the document and send the extracted content along with other information for indexation.
Explain: new version
We are proud to inform that we deployed a new version of explain.solr.pl, software for debugging and analyzing Solr queries. This version contains the following changes:
- bugfixes
- initial support for dla Solr 4.0
- support for ruby 1.9
Source code is available on our GitHub.