Drupal has long provided a built-in search mechanism, so why do we need anything more? In this series, we introduce Apache Solr, a free and open source search service has several advantages and features over Drupal’s built-in search. You'll learn what Search API and Solr is and how to configure them for a Drupal 8 site.
Author, Tess Flynn
Tess, also known as socketwench, is a devops engineer who has worked with Drupal for over a decade. She is the author of the Flag module for Drupal 8 and has given sessions at DrupalCons and DrupalCamps throughout the world on Drupal 8 development, Docker, and DevOps.