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Who is the author of the Apache Solr project?

15th November 2012

My answer to Who is the author of the Apache Solr project? on Quora

Solr has a lot of contributors, but I believe the project was originally created by Yonik Seeley while working at CNET.

Posted 15th November 2012 at 4:58 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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