So it happened, after the discussion started by Dawid Weiss and voting on Apache Solr becoming a top-level project it is clear – Lucene and Solr are going to split their ways, at least when it comes to sharing the same repository and release cycles. I think it is time to think a bit on what that means for us as users and as solr.pl 🙂
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Solr 4.3: shard splitting quick look
With the release of Solr 4.3 we’ve got a long awaited feature – we can now split shards of collections that were already created and have data (in SolrCloud type deployment). In this entry we would like to try that feature and see how it works. So let’s do it.