how we spiked the hbs water supply with solr

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How we spiked the HBS water supply with Solr

Ravi Mynampaty

About Ravi

A little Search Hacker In Training

What’s this session about?

Agenda

● Roadmap● Architecture● Demo!

2012

Search Engine: The Candidates

Biz and Technical Requirements

Built some prototypes

A prophecy fulfilled...

Index Replication

Data Ingestion 1: Crawl pages

Data Ingestion 2: Solr XML Export

Data Ingestion 3: Java Loader

Data Ingestion 3: Java Loader

2013

2014

2014: Dealing with dirty data

Dirty data: Biz Rules Module

2014: Solr-powered Geolocation

2014: Exed Program Finder

2014: Exed Program Finder Chinese

2014: ISC Site

2015

2015: One search box to rule them all

2015

2015: Improve Infrastructure

2015: SolrCloud

2015: Empower the developer

2015: Eliminate crawl pages

2015: HBS site-wide search w/Solr

Retire Ultraseek :o(

2016: Eliminate FAST

● DR● Intranet Search● People search● Solr as an aggregator● ...and many more

2016

Demo!

● Alumni● WK● Dev Dashboard

Thank you!

Questions?

rmynampaty@hbs.edu@ravimynampatylinkedin.com/in/mynampaty