DC Area (NOVA) Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup

Update: due to road closings/commuting challenges of the Pope's visit next Wednesday, we are postponing the meetup by 1 week. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Join us on Wednesday, September 30th, for an evening of networking and Solr discussions, including the below presentation. Please be sure to RSVP with both first and last name so we can include you on the guest list, and bring a picture ID to access the building.

Building Data Pipelines for Solr with Apache NiFi, Presented by Bryan Bende

Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports highly configurable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic. Some of NiFi's key features include a web-based user interface for monitoring and controlling data flows, guaranteed delivery, data provenance, and easy extensibility through custom processor development.

These features make NiFi a perfect candidate for building production quality data pipelines that interact with Apache Solr. This talk will demonstrate how to use a NiFi processor that delivers data to a Solr update handler, as well as a processor for extracting data from Solr on regular intervals for delivery to down-stream systems. In addition we will show how these processors can be combined with other built-in NiFi processors to solve a variety of use cases, including log aggregation, and indexing messages received from Kafka.

Speaker Bio:

Bryan Bende is a Software Engineer at Onyara Inc. where he develops dataflow capabilities around the core framework of Apache NiFi. He has over ten years of experience developing enterprise software solutions with Java and supporting technologies. Bryan received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a M.S. in Computer Science from John Hopkins University.