Lockdown Solr with IIS as a Reverse Proxy
We’ve been developing rich client-side applications that talk directly to Solr’s HTTP interface from Javascript – requiring a publicly accessible Solr. One concern that you’ll naturally have with Solr…
We’ve been developing rich client-side applications that talk directly to Solr’s HTTP interface from Javascript – requiring a publicly accessible Solr. One concern that you’ll naturally have with Solr…
A Lucene Codec, a bit twiddlers dream! Ive been having a lot of fun hacking on a Lucene Codec lately. My hope is to create a Lucene storage layer…
A pretty subtle change happened in the transition from Lucene/Solr 3 to 4. The abstract method for CharFilterFactory changed from public CharStream create(CharStream input); to public abstract Reader create(Reader…
Little did you know, Lucene stores its index on hundreds of Post-It Notes A new feature of Lucene 4 – pluggable codecs – allows for the modification of Lucene’s…
The team recently spent time at Lucene/Solr Revolution Much of the crew just got back from Lucene Revolution. It was an incredible experience to hang out with the cream-of-the-crop…
Let’s recall from Anatomy of a Dismax Query some key components of the dismax query parser: OK, now we’ve had plenty of time to study John’s post (and hey…
Next Stop Debuggersville! Recently I was puzzled by some behavior Solr was showing me. I scratched my head and called over a colleague. We couldnt quite figure out what…
Learn you some Mahout for great good! Yesterday, John and I gave a talk to the DC Hadoop Users Group about using Mahout with Solr to perform Latent Semantic…
I just spent some time putting together some basic Java code to read some data from HDFS. Pretty basic stuff. No map reduce involved. Pretty boilerplate code like the…
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
When I first heard about FoundationDB, I couldnt imagine how it could be anything but vaporware. Seemed like Unicorns crapping happy rainbows to solve all your problems. As Im…
\n \n Sample Automaton\n \n \n\n This article is intended to help you bootstrap your ability to work with Finite State Automata (note automata == plural of automaton). Automata…