Matthew - Thanks for sharing this example. The Zeta site search works well and provided results to my test queries instantly.
cheers, --bemansell On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Runo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks! > > First, the link: https://zeta.zappos.com (it's a very early open beta... > we're just very proud of everyone's work and wanted to share it with you > all) > > We've been working on a new site here at Zappos for about the last 7 > months, with planning going back almost two years. We looked at Endeca, we > looked at Fast, we looked at sooooo many commercial search engine > technologies in that time that I can't even remember them all. We ended up > choosing Solr, and not just because it's free. Solr has a truly wonderful > group of users here who respond to support questions far faster than most > paid support contracts. I've never had a question that I couldn't get > answered on this list, no matter how stupid it's been (sorry Hoss!) =p > > Zappos has a long history of using open source technologies to drive their > business, and have used Apache 1.3 + Perl 5 for the past 8 years. Our new > site is written in Java, and is really built around our Solr index. Solr > powers all the navigation and facets, as well as the brand list and brand > pages. One of the issues with our old site was how database heavy it was, > with some pages generating 100s of queries. Zeta is much better in this > regard, and we really think Solr is going to serve us very well. > > Here's some stats on our Solr index... 158,821 documents in about 2 gigs > of disk space, running in Tomcat 6 with 10 gigs of ram set aside. We have 5 > servers clustered together, and each runs an instance of zeta.zappos.comand a > local copy of solr. For now, each of these servers reads from a single > Solr index stored on NFS - we'll see how this works out, and are prepared to > store a local copy of the index on each server. > > Thanks, and we'd love any feedback on the new site (keep in mind, some > parts of it aren't quite done). > > Matthew Runo > Software Developer > Zappos.com > 702.943.7833 > >
