First Impressions of Apache NiFi
My colleague Scott had been bugging me about NiFi for almost a year, and last week I had the privilege of attending an all day training session on Apache…
Deploying AACT Oracle Dump File into the Cloud with Docker
My summer project is supporting our Data Science intern Samia in her quest to understand if the racial, gender and ethnic representation in cancer clinical trials reflects the general…
It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
This blog post contains the code from the talk I gave at the NYC Solr/Lucene Meetup entitled It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, it’s a Dirigible. Apache Zeppelin: Query…
JavaBeans and SolrJ and Realtime Get Oh My!
A project that I’m working on was previously using AWS DynamoDB for state tracking of processing workloads. We got, very late in the project, the mandate to move away…
Bad Patterns in Tuning Search Results
We’re talking to customers about what challenges they are experiencing in returning highly relevant search results this week while we are at LuceneRevolution. I was really happy when during…
Using DSE to run Solr Spark Jobs
Ever since Tim Potter from LucidWorks published his Spark Solr project, I’ve been wanting to play with it. This week I was at Cassandra Summit 2015 , and so…
Recap of VLDS Insights Conference
VLDS Insights Conference Recap Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the VLDS Insights conference. VLDS is the Virginia Longitudinal Data System, which provides researchers and policy makers anonymized…
Hawt.io makes Camel hotter
Playing with Hawt Watch the startup logs for a pop culture reference 😉 Background We’ve been using Apache Camel on a number of projects over the past two years,…
Hey Lanyrd and SpeakerRate, come crawl us!
When it comes time to share data, as a developer, my mind shifts to fun topics like building API’s, providing data in multiple formats, putting data into public S3…
Using Solr’s new Healthcheck command
SolrCloud is great, up until you start seeing lots of ZooKeeper exceptions and you think to yourself, “wtf?”. Thats when you discover that you should have been monitoring your…
Apache Sentry. So close, and yet nothing.
Security, its always been the bug a boo of Solr. There is a wide sense that security isnt a concern of the Solr community, and that isnt quite accurate….
Two Search Conferences in Two Weeks Was Too Informative
This year I experienced the conference equivalent of a lunar eclipse: two search conferences in two weeks located two hours away from my home town of Charlottesville, Virginia! Enterprise…