Exploring Enterprise Search Solution Critical Capabilities

In this series of blog posts we will review the enterprise search solution capabilities, available software solutions, from basic to advanced search capabilities along with using AI/ML models to achieve both consumer and business value. We will also cover the search solution for healthcare domain common user interactions, domain dataset and ML alignments. In this post we will cover the critical enterprise search solution capabilities on high level.

History

A long has changed in the search solution capabilities since the initial blog posts shared here in this blog for ElasticSearch capabilities. Additionally using Elasticsearch for user behavior clickstream data with Hadoop big data capabilities to process those information. A quick glance at those here,

ElasticSearch

Getting used to Elastic search and having hands directly with different tricks,

Getting started with ElasticSearch

ElasticSearch: Faceted Search for Hierarchical data

ElasticSearch: Text analysis for content enrichment

ElasticSearch: Boosting score for content relevancy

ElasticSearch: Learn Java API usage with test cases

ElasticSearch: Indexing setup using Akka tutorial

ElasticSearch: Faceted Search for Hierarchical data

Faceted Search is the navigational search allowing business to clearly define the properties or characteristics of the product catalog and navigate user to find relevant products with minimum efforts. Most of the available search solutions support the functionality now a days, in this post we will cover how to implemented faceted search using flattened data approach for hierarchical data using ElasticSearch for a typical eCommerce platform.

Search Scenarios/Business Example:

Earlier post, Data Modeling approach for search content and tagging  explains the different characteristics of a typical eCommerce platform serving hierarchical data in terms of categorization of data and sub categorization.

Take an example of such a typical eCommerce platform where one site you need to display the Navigration browsing of your hierarchical data based on some search solution. For example, you need to display products like Books/Clothes etc. Each product has its own specific characteristics and can be categoriezed in different categories and sub categories.

Hierarchical Data:

The hierarchical data in business form represents the taxonomy for your data. The way you can characterize your data in the form of different category type, categories and sub categories for the product catalog.

Java Application performance analysis and optimization using AppDynamics

The enterprise java application stack is growing bigger and bigger which makes it equally difficult to keep control on all the layers of the infrastructure to get maximum result out of it. One of the basic requirement of any web application is well performing, we will cover here an ideal enterprise java web application setup and see how to analyze and optimize the same using AppDynamics tool.

Java Enterprise web application N-tier set up

Take an example of below n-tier java web application interacting with complex middleware system, integrate with numerous external web api’s and equally powerful backend storage system.

enterprise_java_web_application_setup

The diagram covers quite common and complex enterprise application set up.

• Web Servers (eg. Apache web server)
• Application Servers (tomcat application server)
• Mobile application server (tomcat application server)
• Email Server
• Web content management server (eg. Team Site, Alfresco)
• Web application Administration server (tomcat application server)
• File servers (Shared disk eg. NFS)
• Real time/Messaging/Queue server (eg. ActiveMQ)
• Data/File processing backend servers (tomcat application server)
• Data storage/Database servers (eg. MySQL/Oracle)

Problem Context

ImageMagick: Performance analysis and optimization

ImageMagick is widely used command line image manipulation suite. It does provide lot of feature and enables the user with nice image manipulations. If you are planning to use the suite on an environment which is very much processing speed oriented where you need to perform well for each of the image manipulation, we need to analyze the tool settings and optimize it accordingly.

This post will cover how we can analyze ImageMagick from performance perspective and how to optimize it to perform better in different business scenarios.

• ImageMagick Architecture
• ImageMagick Best Practices
• ImageMagick Settings recommendations
• ImageMagick Size/Speed business Approaches
• GraphicsMagick Performance comparison