Erik Hatcher, Author at Lucidworks

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Articles by Erik Hatcher

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.

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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.