Simon Willison’s Weblog

What's powering the Content API? The new Guardian Content API runs on Solr, scaled using EC2 and Solr replication and with a Scala web service layer sitting between Solr and the API’s end users.

Posted 24th May 2010 at 2:08 pm

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