Berlin Buzzwords 2023: AI injects new energy into the search for solutions
Berlin Buzzwords 2023 featured talks on search with AI, scaling, MLOps, vectorizing your search engine and which search engine to use
Haystack 2020 retrospective – going virtual
Two weeks ago we ran our first ever virtual relevance conference – Haystack 2020, as part of a combined week of events including Berlin Buzzwords and MICES, the e-commerce…
Recap of Cassandra Summit 2014
OpenSource Connections was well represented in San Francisco at this years Cassandra Summit 2014. We had Chris Bradford, Eric Pugh, and Matt Overstreet in attendance for the training, sessions,…
Links I shared at New York City Solr/Lucene Meetup
Thank you everyone who came to my war stories talk on Wednesday. Really enjoyed the conversation, thanks to everyone for asking so many questions! Here are some of the…
OSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If youd like to catch up with us and youre in Europe, theres few better places to hear what were all about than at one of our talks at…
Gunning for Gold – Competing on an Indian Tech Game Show
Last week I left OSC headquarters in Charlottesville and set off towards Mumbai. I and a friend are competing in the Super Techies Show put on by CapGemini. nn…
Cassandra Tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World NY
Its just been confirmed that Ill be giving a tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World this October in New York. My tutorial is: “An Introduction to Real-Time Analytics with…
OpenSource Connections is proud to host beSwarm 4
Opensource Connections is proud to host beSwarm What beSwarm is a gathering of tech enthusiasts from all over central Virginia to discuss, share, and learn about anything that interests…
2-Day Solr Training Coming to Charlottesville in March!
Course Overview OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present Solr Unleashed, a 2-day Solr training course right here in Charlottesville. If youre new to Solr, then…
Code quality is a dial too
This article is a preview of my January 22nd talk at Charlottesvilles Neon Guild where Ill be talking about my experiences with rapid prototyping. If youre local, Id love…
Big Search for Big Data: The Screencast
Better late then never, here is the screencast of my presentation Big Search for Big Data that I gave at LuceneRevolution. Its a story of the mistakes and victories…
Indexing Big Data on Amazon AWS: The Screencast
My colleague Scott Stults talks about our experiences in using Amazon EC2 to perform distributed indexing into Solr as well as reprocessing a million TIFF images. At one point…