Articles by Erik Hatcher

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Default Security in Solr 8.4

What’s been fixed in Apache Solr 8.4 including default security settings so that launching a new Solr collection is leaner, with no contrib modules enabled.
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Fusion, Solr, Wikipedia, and a Little Summer Fun

I love cataloging, indexing, and *finding* stuff. It started within the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library, searching 19th century art...
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Using Solr Tagger for Improving Relevancy

Full-text documents and user queries usually contain references to things we already recognize, such as names of people, places, colors,...
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3 Common Data Challenges That Hamper Your Customer’s Search Experience

In a recent post, Marie Griffin discussed AI-powered search’s ability to improve the customer experience, boost loyalty, and increase purchases....
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Solr Payloads

Before we delve into the technical details, what's the big picture?  What real-world challenges are made better with these new Solr...
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example/files – a Concrete Useful Domain-Specific Example of bin/post and /browse

The Series This is the third in a three part series demonstrating how it’s possible to build a real application...
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Visualizing Search Results with Solr /browse & Velocity

In part 2 of this series, learn how to visualize search results with Solr /browse and determine when (and how) to use VelocityResponseWriter.
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Solr 5’s New ‘bin/post’ Utility

Series Introduction This is the first in a three part series demonstrating how it's possible to build a real application...
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Custom Security Filtering in Solr 5.x

A customer that had implemented custom security filtering in Solr 3.x, and then moved to 4.x, recently worked with us to...
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How to Perform Entity Extraction in Solr

My work at Lucidworks primarily involves helping customers build their desired solutions.  Recently, more than one customer has inquired about...
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“Solr in Action” book – early access

Exciting news.... a new book, "Solr in Action" has arrived covering Solr 4!   The book is co-authored by two extremely...
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How Solr’s Post Filter Works

In this post, I’m going to provide a concrete example of custom post filtering for the case of filtering documents based on access control lists.
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