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Building a Solr-Driven Web Portal

Katia Muser & Ravi Mynampaty

About Katia

Technical Solution Architect

About Ravi

A little Search Hacker In Training

What’s this session about?

Agenda

● Roadmap

● Architecture

● Demo!

2012

Search Engine: The Candidates

Biz and Technical Requirements

Built some prototypes

A prophecy fulfilled...

Architecture

Over to Katia

Data Ingestion 1: Crawl pages

Data Ingestion 2: Solr XML Export

Data Ingestion 3: Java Loader

Data Ingestion 3: Java Loader

Roadmap (cont’d)

Back to Ravi

2013

2014

2014: Dealing with dirty data

Dirty data: Biz Rules Module

2014: Solr-powered Geolocation

2014: More sites drink Solr kool-aid

Exec Ed Program Finder

Chinese Program Finder

and others…

2014: Eliminate crawl pages

2015: Improve Infrastructure

2015: HBS site-wide search w/Solr

Retire Ultraseek :o(

Demo!

Back to Katia

Thank you!

Questions?

kmuser@hbs.edu

rmynampaty@hbs.edu