Twenty years of Apache Lucene

Adrien Grand

Distinguished Software Engineer I

After beginning to develop Lucene in 1998, Doug Cutting released a first version on Sourceforge more than 20 years ago in April 2000. Come learn more about the story of Apache Lucene and find out how it went from a single-person project on Sourceforge to one of the most successful projects of the Apache Software Foundation that powers most of the world's search engines.