20 Aug
Insight into Search on Digg.com powered by Solr
Grant did an interview with Sammy Yu, who worked on the search system for Digg.com that utilizes Solr as their platform. Here are some notes from the interview:
Number of Documents in Digg’s index: 13 Million
Index Size (Lucene) on Disk: 8 GB
Architecture: Master - Slave setup, with 10 slaves, running being a load balancer with some caching.
Query Volume: 4.8 million queries / day
