Lucene/Solr Revolution2016

Dogfooding.  Cobbler’s shoes.  Whatever you want to call it, there’s nothing like building a real application on your own product to see the good, bad, and ugly of your own code.  In this talk, we’ll walk through SearchHub, Lucidworks’ community powered site for Apache and other open source projects that indexes hundreds of different public data sources to showcase Fusion and Solr capabilities ranging from the simple (search, faceting) to the complex (Word2Vec, Recommenders, Random Forests).  The talk will highlight key integration points between Spark and Solr and how they are leveraged to do search, recommendations, and machine learning on email and user feedback.  We’ll also cover some interesting crawling use cases as well as how to leverage Fusion’s experiment management framework to run multi-arm bandit tests.