| We're back with an autumn roundup of some of our best blog posts and resources:
Last Call: Fourth Annual Solr Developer Survey Final call to participate in our fourth annual global survey of Solr professionals to better understand how engineers and developers can take advantage of the growth of the Solr ecosystem. This survey will take about 2 minutes to complete and responses are anonymized and confidential. Go to the survey. 
The Search for Better Search at Reddit The video of Reddit's keynote at this year's Lucene/Solr Revolution is now available on YouTube. In the session, they detail how Reddit went through five search stacks in 12 years and built a new search app with Lucidworks Fusion that serves 70M queries daily across the seventh most popular website in the world. Watch the video or view the slides. 
Solr Payloads Solr payloads can help with tasks like per-store pricing, weighted terms (such as the confidence or importance of a term), and weighting term types (like factoring synonyms lower or verbs higher). This blog post from Erik Hatcher walks you through how payloads are implemented in Lucene and how they are integrated into Solr. Read more…
Segment Merging in Solr During indexing, whenever a document is deleted or updated, it's not really removed from the index immediately, it's just "marked as deleted" in its original segment. This leads to some percentage of "waste." Having half or more of your index wasted isn't ideal, this article explains how these conditions arise and what to do about it. Read more...
Fusion Case Studies: Vegas.com, REI, and Bluestem Along with Reddit, several other search teams presented at this year's Lucene/Solr Revolution about how they used Lucidworks Fusion to quickly design, build, and deploy search applications. Vegas.com - Learn how the destination travel site created a brand new mobile search experience in just six weeks. Watch video or view the slides. REI - Hear about the search team's journey from a buggy, error-prone search experience to a more scalable, and more relevant search app. Watch video or view the slides. Bluestem - How the retailer team built a Black Friday-proof ecommerce search and increased conversions across their 16 brands. Watch video or view the slides.
Ebook: Enterprise Search in 2025 One of our most popular ebooks, Enterprise Search in 2025, takes you on a guided tour of the future of search inside the organization. You'll learn about the crucial need for personalized search results for every user, the move from on-prem or cloud architecture to hybrid applications, the advent of conversational search (including chatbots and AI), and the evolution of voice-based applications. Grab the ebook now.
From Data to Application in Minutes Another fantastic session from this year's Revolution is Bjarki Holm's discussion of common UX patterns and paradigms in search, and how to choose the right patterns for your data. Also includes a demo of how to quickly build a mobile-ready search application using Fusion App Studio. Watch the video.
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