About the Reviewers

Damiano Braga is the technical search lead at Trulia, where he leads all the backend search and browsing-related projects. He's also an open source contributor and has participated as a speaker at the Lucene Revolution 2014, where he presented Thoth, a real-time Solr monitoring and search analysis engine. He also previously reviewed the book Apache Solr Search Patterns, Packt Publishing.

Prior to Trulia, Damiano studied and worked for the University of Ferrara (Italy), where he also completed his master's degree in computer science engineering.

Florian Hopf works as a freelance software developer and consultant in Karlsruhe, Germany. He familiarized himself with Lucene-based searching while working with different content management systems on the Java platform. He is responsible for small and large search systems, on both the Internet and Intranet, for web content and application-specific data based on Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch. He helps organize the local Java user group as well as the Search Meetup in Karlsruhe. Florian has also written a German book on Elasticsearch. He posts blogs at http://blog.florian-hopf.de/.