Search Insights 2020, a new report from The Search Network
The Search Network is a group of independent search professionals and companies formed in 2017 as a community of practice. The Network publishes free annual reports covering many different…
Why you should submit a talk to Haystack, the Search Relevance Conference
Most of you will be aware of our Haystack conference, which we currently run in April in Charlottesville, USA and in October in Europe. We’re now in our third…
What happens at a Lucene/Solr Hackday
For the last few years I’ve run free Lucene Hackdays around the same time of year as the largest conference in our open source search sector, Activate (previously known…
Catching MICES in Berlin for e-commerce search
MICES is a one-day, free to attend event held in Berlin just after the Berlin Buzzwords conference – it’s a combination of talks and less formal discussion sessions, run…
Zookeeper Resiliency for Solr Cloud in AWS, using Auto-Scaling Groups
We’re very happy to present a guest blog by Alex Addison, Senior Developer at LexisNexis UK. Alex’s team will be presenting a talk on some of their work at…
Haystack 2019 day 2 – doubling down on relevance with the Relevance Avengers
I’ve already written about the first day of Haystack 2019, here’s a quick summary of the second day. We returned to the cinema, noted that Avengers Endgame was still…
Haystack 2019 day 1 – grab your popcorn, it’s Relevance Avengers time
You may remember I was ever so slightly enthusiastic about last year’s inaugural Haystack conference in Charlottesville, Virginia – it would perhaps be unseemly to be so effusive again,…
Test-driven search relevance tuning – for free!
As you may know OpenSource Connections has a commitment to search relevance that goes beyond our expert consultancy and training – we genuinely want to build a community of…
Weather fork-cast: Cloudy with a chance of Elasticsearch
There have been some interesting moves by cloud computing providers over the last few weeks with respect to search and relevance, particularly concerning the Elasticsearch open source stack. As…
Search Insights 2019, a new report from The Search Network
Search Insights 2019, a new report from The Search Network As many of you will know I’ve now joined OSC as a Managing Consultant – so here’s my first…
Flax has joined OpenSource Connections
Flax has joined OpenSource Connections! On February 1st 2019 Flax’s Managing Director Charlie Hull joined OpenSource Connections (OSC), Flax’s long-standing US partner, as a senior Managing Consultant. Charlie manages…