Vespa is no more a 'new kid on the block' in the domain of search and big data. Everyone is wooed over reading about its capabilities in search, recommendation, and machine-learned aspects augmenting search especially for large data-sets. With so many great features to offer and so less documentation to how to get started on Vespa , we want to take an opportunity to introduce it to the lucene based search users. We will cover about Vespa architecture , getting started , leveraging advance features , important aspects all in the analogies easier for someone with a fresh or lucene based search engines mindset.