2017 Kickoff: Cloudera Lightning Talks

Join us to kick off the new year at Cloudera's HQ in Palo Alto. Don't miss an evening of food, drinks, and a set of lightning talks from the below Solr experts and committers. See you there!

Topic #1: Backup and Disaster Recovery for Solr
Speaker: Hrishikesh Gadre

Topic #2: Analyzing Large Solr Log Files
Speaker: Mark Miller

Topic #3: The SolrCloud Recovery Process
Speaker: Mike Drob

Topic #4: Graph Traversal and Streaming Expressions
Speaker: Yonik Seeley

Hrishikesh Gadre is a software engineer at Cloudera working on Cloudera Search. Prior to Cloudera, Hrishikesh worked for virtualization giant VMware for more than three years building next-generation network/security virtualization platform. He has a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, New Jersey specializing in large-scale distributed systems.

Mark Miller is a longtime Lucene / Solr committer and Apache member. After starting with Lucene in 2006, Mark has spent most his time getting paid to work on the open source software projects that he loves. He has given many talks on Lucene/Solr at various conferences and meet-ups around the world and is currently learning all about Hadoop as a software engineer at Cloudera.

Mike Drob has been immersed in Big Data for over 5 years, previously with the US Government and now with Cloudera. His current role is to provide operational support for Apache Solr, a world-class search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. He is also a hobbyist contributor to several other open source projects including Apache Curator, Apache Accumulo, Apache HTrace-incubating, JUnit, JLine, and JCommander. When not coding, he likes to mentor middle school students in robotics, take his dog running along the Houston bayous, and to tend his tragically low yield vegetable garden.

Yonik Seeley is the creator of Solr. He works at Cloudera integrating and leveraging "Big Search" technologies into the many components comprising the Cloudera enterprise data hub (EDH). Yonik was previously a co-founder of LucidWorks, and he holds a master's degree from Stanford University.