5. 5
01
Agenda
• Solr @ Gannett
• Current State
• Collection Management
• Queuing Solution
• Future Work
• Questions
6. 6
02
@
Site Search
CMS Search
Analytics
Personalization
40+ Applications
20M+
Integral pillar of Gannett’s Digital Platform
total
documents
800,000+ per
month
Growing rapidly
100,000+ requests
per minute
Highly Available
~100ms average
response time
Extremely Fast
8 nodes
256 gb memory
per availability zone
9. 9
01
Collection Management
• Create Collection
• Deploy Batch Indexer
• Index new Collection
• Update Alias to new Collection
• Run catch up
• Deploy Search/Index Apps
19. 19
01
Future Work
• Continuous Delivery of schema
• Build payload in one zone only
• Automated Deadletter handling
• Earlier notification of potential failure