Congrats Doug and John! Writing a book like this is a very long, arduous process (as several folks on this list can attest to). Writing a great book like this is considerably more challenging.
I read through this entire book a few months ago before they put the final touches on it, and (for anyone on the mailing list who is contemplating buying it), it is a REALLY great book that will teach you the ins and outs of how search relevancy works under the covers and how you can manipulate and improve it. It's very well-written, and definitely worth the read. Congrats again, guys. Trey Grainger Co-author, Solr in Action SVP of Engineering @ Lucidworks On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Doug Turnbull < dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > Not much more to add than my post here! This book is targeted towards > Lucene-based search (Elasticsearch and Solr) relevance. > > Announcement with discount code: > http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/06/21/relevant-search-published/ > > Related hacker news thread: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946636 > > Thanks to everyone in the Solr community that was helpful to my efforts. > Specifically Trey Grainger, Eric Pugh (for keeping me employed), Charlie > Hull and the Flax team, Alex Rafalovitch, Timothy Potter, Yonik Seeley, > Grant Ingersoll (for basically teaching me Solr back in the day), Drew > Farris (for encouraging my early blogging), everyone at OSC, and many > others I'm probably forgetting! > > Best > -Doug >
