We’re back to the nineth issue of our team Dev Diaries Series! If you want to be a programmer or get into the world of Alfresco (or other ECM), AI or Machine Learning, here is the opportunity to hear from real developers… Texter Blue’s developers!
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For this Dev Diary number nine, we talked with Texter Blue’s Consultant, and Alfresco Process and Content Services Certified Engineer, Jhonny Aldeia, about the development of SpeedySearch – A Lightning-Fast Search Engine for ECM’s! Let’s check it…
What product are you responsible for developing?
Hi! I’m with the development of SpeedySearch. A Lightning-Fast Search Engine for ECM environments with 3 distinct architectural approaches: Elasticsearch index-time-merging; Alfresco SearchAPI – search-time merging; and Hybrid model.
Why did the need for this product arose?
There are similar solutions and offer federation of results. However, there was a need to have a faster system. In addition, there was also the need to create a system that could be integrated with the new alfresco client (ACA – Alfresco Content Application or ADW – Alfresco Digital Workspace), and that was developed on ADF – Alfresco Application Development Framework, a recent alfresco framework.
What challenges you had in the development?
The goal of SpeedySearch was to federate results from various Alfrescos repositories. By other words, to join multiple results in one, from a search done on multiple repositories. There was also the need to show a livesearch view during the search and offer an incredibly fast search time. The challenges related to this type of service are mainly related to the knowledge of architectures, of the Alfresco Application Development Framework (ADF) and with the ACA (Alfresco Content Application).
How do you solve those challenges?
The secret of SpeedySearch lies in its architecture, and in the way as fast as it presents the results. Thus, we directly apply existing architectures, as to the so-called Federation Search. Other solutions have been studied, and we combined various types of software, to achieve the goal.
What impact the project had on the customer experience?
Mainly, it creates in the client a feeling of instant search! With a new LiveSearch view and an immediate results presentation, the customer experience becomes greatly optimized.
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