Getting Started with Enterprise Search Using Apache Solr

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Search is one of the most misunderstood functionalities in the IT industry. Apache Solr brings high quality Enterprise Search to the masses.

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Course Description

Search is one of the most misunderstood functionalities in the IT industry. Even further, Enterprise Search used to be neither for the faint of heart, nor for those with a thin wallet. However, since the introduction of Apache Solr, the name of the game has changed. Apache Solr brings high quality Enterprise Search to the masses. Don’t leave home without it!

Course Description

Search is one of the most misunderstood functionalities in the IT industry. Even further, Enterprise Search used to be neither for the faint of heart, nor for those with a thin wallet. However, since the introduction of Apache Solr, the name of the game has changed. Apache Solr brings high quality Enterprise Search to the masses. Don’t leave home without it!

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Course Syllabus

Why Solr & Enterprise Search?
- 19m 5s

—Why Watch This Course? 1m 34s
—My Promise to You 0m 38s
—What to Expect From This Course 1m 29s
—Are you Ready to Learn? 0m 59s
—Why Enterprise Search? 3m 41s
—Solr & Famous Sites 2m 19s
—Other Search Engines 0m 29s
—History of Search 3m 32s
—Functions of a Search Engine 1m 14s
—Features & Scalability 2m 11s
—Takeaway 0m 54s

Architecture of an Enterprise Search Application
- 12m 32s

—Architecture 0m 30s
—Beauty and Simplicity 1m 20s
—Architectural Review 5m 6s
—Lucene the Search Engine 2m 24s
—Search Applications 2m 13s
—Takeaway 0m 57s

Solr Configuration
- 29m 43s

—Solr Configuration 0m 54s
—Getting Solr and Overview 2m 19s
—Install, Run, Index and Query 9m 11s
—Admin UI 0m 34s
—Getting Assistance 0m 27s
—Dashboard 0m 11s
—Logging 0m 54s
—Core Admin 0m 47s
—Java Properties 0m 19s
—Thread Dump 0m 24s
—Core Selector 0m 27s
—Analysis 0m 26s
—DataImportHandler 0m 36s
—Documents 0m 29s
—Ping 0m 15s
—Plugins and Stats 0m 18s
—Query 2m 11s
—Replication 0m 22s
—Schema Browser 0m 39s
—Tomcat - Running Solr in Production 6m 59s
—Takeaway 0m 52s

Content: Schemas, Documents and Indexing
- 59m 56s

—Concepts 1m 13s
—Documents, Fields, Field Types and Attributes 5m 51s
—Schema.xml 2m 43s
—Schema.xml demo 7m 27s
—Solrconfig.xml 2m 14s
—Solrconfig.xml Demo 3m 34s
—Indexing 1m 49s
—Playing Around With Demos 0m 54s
—Updating Documents Using CSV 1m 28s
—Updating Data via Admin UI 3m 9s
—Deleting Data 2m 26s
—Solr XML Format 1m 39s
—cURL 4m 22s
—Fiddler 3m 45s
—Indexing Documents With Apache Tika 4m 17s
—Indexing Web Pages With Apache Nutch 5m 11s
—DataImportHandler 4m 15s
—Index all Sample Data 2m 32s
—Takeaway 0m 59s

Searching & Relevance
- 1h 5m

—Searching & Relevance 5m 18s
—Demo: Solr in Real Life 3m 7s
—Searching Lifecycle 1m 31s
—Raw Query Parameters 1m 44s
—Query Event 1m 29s
—Filter Query 2m 26s
—Sorting 2m 22s
—Paging With Start and Rows 1m 40s
—Fields 1m 27s
—Default Field 1m 53s
—Response Writer 0m 53s
—Indent 0m 44s
—Debugquery 1m 58s
—Query Parser 2m 38s
—Dismax & eDismax 9m 59s
—Highlighting 2m 15s
—Facets 4m 32s
—Spatial Search 3m 27s
—Spellcheck 1m 27s
—Synonyms 2m 35s
—Stemming & Lemmatization 1m 7s
—Stopwords 2m 6s
—Request Handler 8m 32s
—Takeaway 0m 26s

Making it all Work: Put a UI on It!
- 22m 59s

—Solrnet to Build Your App 2m 57s
—SolrNet UI Demo 19m 18s
—Takeaway 0m 43s

Final Words
- 2m 5s

—Final Words 2m 5s