Erik Hatcher, Developer on Fire, Profiled by Dave Rael

Lucidworks engineer, Apache Lucene committer, and co-author of Lucene in Action as well as co-author of Java Development with Ant is profiled on Dave Rael’s Developer on Fire podcast.

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