Re:Apache what? (Score 2)

Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar, haswritten an extremely useful guide to one of the most popular open-source search platforms, Apache Solr.

It's so popular that I never heard of it before today.

That's the fun part about the IT world. That even products as popular as Lucene/Solr backed by companies with Billion dollars investment (e.g. Cloudera) may not be known by everybody.

The good thing is that when you actually need to build a search for something, we have a solution for you. Built, tested and iterated on by the hundreds of full-time and hobby-time developers working on it while you are doing other - I am sure exciting - things in your own corner of the software universe.

P.s. This is not a comment on the book itself. I reserve my opinion on that.