Greetings From Plato’s Cavemen: Search Shadows from a Sitecore Architect

5:30 - 6:00 PM - Food and Networking

Please Note: The location for this meeting has been moved to Monster (133 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA)

The meeting will begin with a lightning talk by Vijay Adusumilli (Senior Manager of Software Engineering Technologies) about Search technologies and projects at Monster.

After that, Grant Killian will deliver the following presentation to the group.

Greetings From Plato’s Cavemen: Search Shadows from a Sitecore Architect

Sitecore is a popular content management system increasingly targeting the enterprise market. Search is a critical component of the Sitecore platform. Getting search right can be the difference between a CMS implementation success or failure. Grant will present the search landscape through the eyes of a Sitecore Architect, a caveman interpreting search “shadows” on Plato’s allegorical cave wall. Through the lens of the Sitecore technology stack, Grant will explore the spectrum of search providers and how they apply to this web-based Windows server technology for enterprise content management. This will be a fun, interactive session – when else can you combine Greek philosophy with search scalability?

Presenter

Grant Killian is a Sitecore Architect for Rackspace Hosting, the #1 managed cloud company. Grant works with global Sitecore CMS implementations on topics of performance, scalability, custom development, and general best practices. Prior to Rackspace, Grant worked at Sitecore as a Solution Architect focusing on enterprise projects. Grant might be a caveman when it comes to search, but he has over 20 years of software development experience, including success as a technical lead for Credit Suisse’s option trading platform in Zürich, Switzerland.