• Design, architecture, and development of custom Lucene, Solr, Nutch, and Hadoop-based solutions
• Consulting around architecture design, best practices, scaling, performance, tuning, and related expertise
• Consulting around scaling, performance, and hardware requirements
• Code reviews, mentoring, and troubleshooting
• Security architecture and integration with external systems
• Information about other free and commercial Information Retrieval and Information Extraction solutions

Common Requests

• Design search infrastructure for index growth, high query rate, and High Availability
• Hardware recommendations
• Performance troubleshooting (slow queries, high memory usage)
• Optimizations and best setup for disk space, search, or indexing speed
• Custom development: "Did you mean?" spellchecker, Related Searches, database indexing, vertical search engines, custom scoring/ranking, etc.
• Handling multi-lingual content
• Evaluating Solr, Lucene, or Nutch vs. commercial solutions
• Evaluating Lucene vs. Solr