Advanced Solr

Course Summary

The Advanced Solr training course is designed to demonstrate the advanced principles of the latest release of Solr and SolrCloud. In the course, participants learn best practices for sharing indexes and running SolrCloud Mode at scale.

The course begins with Solr Architecture and the exploration of version 2 of the API. Particpants will then learn how to configure, tune, scale Solr, and SolrCloud. Next, the course moves into advanced concepts of searching under control. The course concludes with a lesson on tuning Solr and SolrCloud from an expert perspective.

Prerequisites:

Understand the fundamentals of Solr
Experience creating Solr schemas and indexes

Purpose	Learn how to use modern Solr and SolrCloud
Audience	Software Developers wanting to advance their knowledge of Solr
Role	Software Developer
Skill Level	Advanced
Style	Lecture \| Hands-on Activities \| Labs
Duration	3 Days
Related Technologies	Apache Solr \| Search \| Cloud \| Java

Learning Objectives

Leverage version 2 of the Solr API
Tune Solr
Transition to SolrCloud

What You'll Learn:

In the Advanced Solr training course, you'll learn:

Solr Architecture

SolrCloud architecture

API v2

What is API v2
Nested documents

Configuring Solr Internals

General solrconfig.xml section
Replication
Update request processors
Language detection
Configuring logging
Slow query log

Tuning Solr

Indexing threads
Indexing buffer size
Auto commit tuning
Caches
Replication throttling
Warming up

Scaling Solr & SolrCloud

Solr controller & agent configuration
ZooKeeper role explained
Working with ZooKeeper
Sharding
Using Collections API
SolrCloud Replica Types
Caches in SolrCloud
Aliases

Operations

Running in Container/Kubernetes (on GCP)
Backing up SolrCloud
Monitoring using JMX
Monitoring using SPM
Key Metrics to Monitor

Search Under Control

Routing
Index time routing
Query time routing
Basic syntax for local params
Parameter dereferencing
Using parameter dereferencing in handlers configuration
Using filters tagging
Using faceting exclusions
Using pivot facets with stats component and query faceting
Advanced facets control
JSON facets control
Re-ranking queries results
Timing out searches

Expert Tuning Solr

Memory considerations
Indexing threads
Auto commit tuning
Caches
Replication throttling

Expert SolrCloud

ZooKeeper role explained
Sharding and replication
Rule based shard placement
Cluster state explained
Caches in SolrCloud
Shard splitting
Migrating data between collections
Working with large number of collections

Real-World Content

Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.

Expert Practitioners

Industry experts that bring their battle scars into the classroom.

Experiential Learning

More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.

Tailored Outlines

One-size-fits-all doesn't apply to training teams. That's where we come in!

“I appreciated the instructor's technique of writing live code examples rather than using fixed slide decks to present the material.”

VMware

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Advanced Solr

Course Summary

Purpose

Audience

Role

Skill Level

Style

Duration

Related Technologies