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Solr

Core Solr Training Course

Get Started with Apache Solr

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Our Solr training classes have a 4.48/5 rating based on 40 reviews

This 8-hour online course, split over the course of two days, is the fastest and easiest way for you and your team to gain the basic skills needed to successfully use Solr capabilities by improving your workflow and increasing efficiency. Beginners will learn the core Solr concepts from scratch, such as inverted index, Solr schema, analysis, tokens, token filters, highlighting and query parsing. This online training covers Solr 7.x, 8.x and 9.x. See course outline below for more li.

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Your Apache Solr instructor is Radu Gheorghe, an active Solr engineer and consultant with years of experience helping enterprise, medium and small organizations from 15+ different industries. Here are some issues Radu solved for Sematext clients recently:

  • Designed and deployed leader-follower and SolrCloud based architectures from small businesses to large scale enterprises use-cases
  • Improved search relevancy to provide on-point results in various business use cases from e-commerce to health industries
  • Optimized clusters handling thousands of queries per second
  • Helped clients reduce operational costs by optimizing the amount of hardware needed as a result of SolrCloud tuning
  • Diagnosed and suggested solutions for various JVM related issues - from garbage collector problems to heap usage reduction without costs increase

What's Included

  • 8-hour online training
  • A digital copy of the training material
  • Docker Compose files, configs, scripts, etc.
  • Certificate of Completion

Next Class April 15-16, 2024

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Price $800

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Why attend?

  • Small, interactive, instructor-led classes
  • Lots of hands-on exercises, tutorials and training materials
  • Customized learning experience
  • More flexibility - no need to travel
  • Real-world use cases and scenarios
  • Get our Solr certification - Certificate of Completion included

Who should attend?

This Solr course is designed for technical attendees of any knowledge level and is aimed at those who need to configure, tune and manage Solr and have only basic Solr knowledge.

No prior Solr experience is required. Experience with Linux systems is not a must, but basic familiarity with running shell commands (e.g., using curl command) will make the course more enjoyable.

What attendees say

For a non-native English speaker student, this course was a crystal clear explanation of Solr and all the sweetest juice you can extract from your text searches. Even if you think you know enough Solr, I wholeheartedly recommend this course for you.

Nestor Arturo Fernandez Ricaurte
Senior Developer - Legis

If you are serious about getting Solr right, this is the course for you. Simply put, it's the best Solr instruction for those who want to master this domain and use Solr in the real world

Architect at Large Cloud Company

Thank you for a very informative training, such a wealth of information that I truly enjoyed learning about.

Vickie Jean Charles
Sr. System Engineer - Xactly Corporation

The Intermediate and Advanced Solr Training went very well. A few of the things I liked:

— The intermediate and advanced command files included in the training material were very helpful. I’m still referring to them after taking the class as I look more in-depth into the various features.
— The provided example data and scripts to load the data into Solr are another big time saver. Also, this gives me something to refer to as I review the training notes.
— The hands-on exercise/labs

The training covered several Solr features e.g., streaming aggregation, JSON API, etc. that we haven’t really used yet, but may be very useful to us in the future.

David Powell
Software Engineer - Large-Scale NGO in the Educational Sector

The CORE training made the complex concepts around solr easy to understand. Although it was a group setting, I still feel like I received individual attention. All of my questions were answered well, and at the close of each unit, I felt confident in my understanding.

Sarah Smulligan
Software Developer

Thanks Radu for guiding us through this Apache Solr training from Core to the Advance training program. Your experience, explanations and labs helped me to get the knowledge to improve the way we use Apache Solr in my company.

Emmanuel Altamirano
Senior Java Developer at TransUnion

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Pick from the Solr Online Course matching your exact needs. Delivery method: Live Online. Time: 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM ET (2 sessions).

solr Core Solr
April 15-16, 2024
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Course Outline

Getting started with Solr
  • What is Apache Solr
  • General principles
  • Architecture types
Introduction to Solr
  • Starting Solr with schema-less configuration
  • Inverted index
  • Relevancy basics
  • Indexing documents
  • Retrieving documents by identifier
  • Searching for documents
  • Deleting documents
  • Lab:
    • Using start scripts
    • Working with configuration
    • CRUD operations
Indexing data
  • Data structure
  • Running Solr with our own configuration
  • XML data format explained
  • JSON data format explained
  • CSV data format explained
  • Index structure configuration
  • Defining custom field types
  • String vs Text based types
  • Basic field usage examples
  • Tokenizers
  • Char filters
  • Filters
  • Language oriented data
  • Copy fields
  • Dynamic fields
  • Doc values
  • Additional field properties
  • Lab:
    • Indexing data
    • Working with Solr schema
    • Creating fields and types
    • Using copy fields
    • Using Solr language analysis capabilities
Searching
  • Simple URI search
  • Paging
  • Sorting
  • Filters
  • Choosing display fields
  • Pseudo fields
  • Debug query
  • Lucene query language
  • Standard query parser
  • Dismax query parser
  • Extended dismax query parser
  • XML query parser
  • Examples of other parsers
  • Using cursor for deep paging
  • Highlighting
  • Dealing with relevancy
  • Function queries
  • Multi collection search
  • Lab:
    • Paging
    • Sorting
    • Term searching
    • Using various query parsers
    • Using cursor
Data Analysis
  • Introduction to faceting
  • Basic use cases
  • Field faceting
  • Field prefix faceting
  • Sorting faceting results
  • Limiting faceting
  • Range faceting
  • Query faceting
  • Hierarchical faceting
  • Interval faceting
  • Lab:
    • Building tag cloud using field faceting
    • Using prefixes to build simple autocomplete feature
    • Sorting faceting results
    • Working with numerical data and faceting
    • Using hierarchical faceting to get more insight into the data
    • Interval faceting

Main Topics

  • What is Apache Solr
  • Apache Solr Basic Concepts
  • Apache Solr Architecture Concepts
  • Apache Solr Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Apache Solr CRUD Operations
  • Data Structure Design
  • Working with Fields and Field Types
  • Searching
  • Faceting
  • Using Function Queries
  • Highlighting

Course key takeaways

After taking this course you will know how to:

  • Configure and deploy Solr.
  • Run a wide range of queries including queries with facets and aggregations
  • Index documents with Solr

Setup requirements

  • Participants must use their own computer with OSX, Linux, or Windows, with a recent version of Java installed.
  • Participants should be comfortable using a terminal/command line.

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