Solr Power FTW: a large-scale deployment story

Solr is an open source, Lucene based search platform used by thousands of web sites. This presentation will dive into the technical details of making Solr your primary query engine on large scale web applications. We'll talk about a multi data center SOLR deployment handling up to 30K queries per second with sub-20ms response times. Real solutions to problems like handling five billion requests per month will be presented. We'll talk about sizing and configuring the Solr instances to maintain rapid response times under heavy load. The presentation will go into detail on SOLR sharding and replication, as well as Garbage Collection tuning.

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Solr Power FTW-apinkin-bbuzz12.pdf