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June 08, 2016 / by Torsten Bøgh Köster / CTO / @tboeghk

Search Technology Meetup IV - The international one

For our sixth edition of the Search Technology Meetup Hamburg we were able to invite some of the leading users and committers of Apache Solr and Elasticsearch. Codecentric hosted this event in their fabulous offices right at river Elbe.

BM25 demystified

Britta Weber (Elastic) demystified the new default probabilistic inspired similarity in Lucene 6.

BM25 demystified, Britta Weber BM25 demystified, Britta Weber BM25 demystified, Britta Weber

Serving real time push-notifications for 5million saved searches

André Charton & Christiane Lemke from Ebay Classifieds (Kleinanzeigen) gave some insights of their approach on massivly scaling push notifications. The implementation based on the Elasticsearch perculator and we learned about tuning and scaling it.

Serving real time push-notifications, André Charton Serving real time push-notifications, Christiane Lemke Serving real time push-notifications, Christiane Lemke

Building a real-time news search engine

Ramkumar Aiyengar, TeamLead Search Backend at Bloomberg R&D in London, shared some insights into their journey of building a real-time news search engine. As a Apache Solr committer Ramkumar could provide some details of the patches they submitted to increase overall stability of Apache Solr.

Building a real-time news search engine, Ramkumar Aiyengar Building a real-time news search engine, Ramkumar Aiyengar Building a real-time news search engine, Ramkumar Aiyengar


Thanks to speakers for the amazing talks, Thomas from codecentric for organizing and sponsoring locations, drinks and food and to the guests for some inspiring conversations! We’re currently planning a next edition of the Search Technology Meetup in October/November 2016. We’re still looking for talks and venues. Hope to see you there again!

Slides

These are (more or less) the slides as presented. We’ll add Andrés and Christines slides as soon as available!