PlayStation and Lucene: Indexing 1M Docs per Second on 18 Servers

As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Las Vegas next month, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Alexander Filipchik’s talk, „PlayStation and Lucene: Indexing 1M Docs per Second on 18 Servers“.

PlayStation4 is a not just a gaming console. The PlayStation Network is a system that handles more than 70 millions active users, and in order to create an awesome gaming experience has to support  personalized search at scale. The systems that provide this personalized experience indexes up to 1M documents per second using Lucene and only uses 18 mid sized Amazon instances.  This talk covers how the PlayStation team personalizes search for their users at scale with Lucene.

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