Introduction to Distributed Search using Cassandra with Solr and Lightning Talks

An Introduction to Distributed Search with Cassandra and Solr

Patricia Gorla, Opensource Connnections

Cassandra was built for search. This talk shows the benefits of pairing your Cassandra cluster with Solr's powerful full-text search engine, and explores different use cases using the Datastax Enterprise Edition of Cassandra..

Bio:

Patricia is a software consultant with Opensource Connections. Her background began with Python application development, and moved to data analysis after getting involved with machine learning. From there, she has worked on many full-stack data projects: gathering and scrubbing the data, running analyses, and developing custom visualizations to lay out the information. She is passionate about the data aspect of search and the challenges many companies face indexing fast-growing datasets.

Lightning Talks!

Rather than having a second presenter, we're going to try: lightning talks. This is a free-for-all: give a presentation on any topic that you think will interest the group. If its bad, we'll probably just boo you off the stage ;).

To be fair, we DO ask that you sign up here to give your talk (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGlKbXBra2NKcG1pbkYzOE5rWEdqN2c6MA). That way people will know if they have a shot of giving their talk, and people can also see the general talk topics that will be given and decide weather or not they want to stick around. Heres the general rules:

Talks will be given priority on a first-register-first-serve basis. Talks should be limited to 10 minutes or less. Talks can be on any topic you think would be interesting to the group. If you have materials for your talk, e-mail them to Naresh kosgi in Powerpoint format no later than 5pm EST on May 13th at kosgi_nareshatbahdotcom. Naresh will consolidate them into a single, in-order deck to facilitate speed. Approximately 90 minutes are allocated for talks and we will do as many of them as possible. That means probably 9-10 talks. Q+A should be reserved for the general meandering that always follows the meeting. Agenda

6:00-7:00 pm - Networking and snacks

7:00-7:10 pm - Announcements and kickoff

7:10-7:45 pm - Distributed Search with Cassandra and Solr

7:45-9:15 pm - Lightning talks