Peter Wolanin on Apache Solr & Acquia Search Service
Peter Wolanin talks about the Apache Solr Search Integration module, and his involvement with polishing and finishing it along with Jacob Singh from what Robert Douglass started.
Apache Solr has been picking up steam this past year with it's faceted search features, and getting a lot more exposure with being deployed on the module search on Drupal.org.
Peter talks about the mechanics of how Apache Solr works, and how it's based up on the Apache Lucene text search engine library, which is a lot more optimized for search than SQL. Peter was working on Apace Solr integration as a part of the Acquia Search service, which is geared toward people who do not want to deal with setting up and maintaining a dedicated server for search.
Finally, Peter also talks a bit about some of the exciting things on the horizon in the future with Views integration and search integration with other modules.
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