John Berryman

John Berryman’s first career was as an aerospace engineer, but after several years in aerospace, he found that he most loved his job when programming or when working on a good math problem. Eventually, John cut out the aircraft and satellites and started working full-time with software development, infrastructure architecture, and search technology. These days, John works at Eventbrite, helping to build out event discovery, search, and recommendations using Elasticsearch.

books by John Berryman

Relevant Search
  • June 2016
  • ISBN 9781617292774
  • 360 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Russian, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Technology and Computing / Search Engines

Relevant Search demystifies the subject and shows you that a search engine is a programmable relevance framework. You'll learn how to apply Elasticsearch or Solr to your business's unique ranking problems. The book demonstrates how to program relevance and how to incorporate secondary data sources, taxonomies, text analytics, and personalization. In practice, a relevance framework requires softer skills as well, such as collaborating with stakeholders to discover the right relevance requirements for your business. By the end, you'll be able to achieve a virtuous cycle of provable, measurable relevance improvements over a search product's lifetime.