Populating Your Search Index

This meetup event is on the general subject of populating a search index. We've got 5 presenters that will talk about the subject: two being a "how we do it" at XYZ company, and the others being more general in nature with some mentions of specific open-source tools. Essentially everyone using a search platform devises their own approach, usually using some tools to get the job done. Sometimes fairly simple, sometimes fairly complex. There's a lot to learn from each other!

Presenters:

• David Smiley -- a review of some ETL tools, and demo Apache NiFi

• Gus Heck -- proposal/ideas for a document processing pipeline

• Bob Lindenberg (TIAA-CREF) -- "how we do it" at TIAA-CREF using Solr

• Simon Rosenthal (DRG) -- "how we do it" at DRG, using SolrCloud

• Igor Motov -- Logstash and Beats with ElasticSearch

I/we look forward to seeing you, and learning what you might have to share too.

Keep in mind the location of this meetup is at Basis Tech (near Alewife, Cambridge), not Black-Duck.

Some food will be available, sponsored by Basis Tech & LucidWorks.