Threads is a new social media app from Meta that is designed for sharing personal updates with a small group of people. Threads is easy to use and has been downloaded over 80 million times since its launch this month.

Apache Solr is a powerful full-text search engine built on top of Lucene, providing additional features such as distributed search, faceted search, sharding, and replication. Solr cores allow for multiple indexes to be hosted on a single server while still maintaining separation and isolation. SolrCloud is a distributed and scalable collection of Solr instances that allows for horizontal scaling and high availability. With features such as queries, filters, and Boolean logic, Solr is a versatile search engine that can handle complex search scenarios.

Apache Solr is an open-source, Java-based, search server built on top of Apache Lucene by the Apache Software Foundation. It is highly scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant and distributed and designed for powerful document retrieval applications. Solr is based on open standards and uses HTTP URLs for its queries.

Azure Global Infrastructure consists of two key components: Physical infrastructure and connective network components. The physical infrastructure comprises more than 200+ datacentres spread across the world, arranged into regions which are interconnected by low latency, high speed, and one of the largest inter-connected networks

I am not talking about the clouds up in the sky. We are interested in the Cloud computing services offered by different cloud providers. In simple terms, these are IT resources or services such as networking, storage, computing, analytics etc… that can be accessed over the internet, usually with pay-as-you-go billing.You can imagine Cloud as a collection of different IT resources that are available for rent or use with a subscription fee. These resources are located in data centres all over the globe, maintained by Cloud Service Providers (CSP)