RDS is expensive – a cautionary AWS tale
I wanted to share with the world a cautionary story related to my by @softwaredoug that reminded me that while Amazon AWS is amazing, its also best used in…
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…
Talking Search and Discovery to Exploit Data at Enterprise Data World 2014
As a search guy, I think of data as something to exploit in order to solve some business objective, with a focus on moving data along the axis of…
Cut Through the Clutter: Use Clustering to Suggest Facets
I have a concrete counter top in our kitchen that is rather different from most concrete counter tops because it is coloured with a thin surface layer of multiple…
Using SolrJ with BASIC authentication and SSL wrapped Solr
Do you have BASIC authentication turned on for Solr? Are you using a self signed SSL Certificate? Do you want to index to this server using SolrJ? Ive taken…
Using SolrCloud to clone your search index
The search engine GPSN has fairly static dataset of Chinese patents that is delivered via roughly 5 TB worth of very large ZIP files. The data for each patent…
Tomorrow is Semantic Day at OpenSource Connections
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable ofanalyzing…
Forget Search, Lets Talk Discovery – A Recap of Enterprise Search Summit
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended…
Thinking about Solr 4 Book Update
Im just starting to think about updating the book Solr Enterprise Search Server that David Smiley and I co-authored for Solr 4 now that it is very close to…
CodeFloat 2012 “by the numbers”
For the past year Ive been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs…
LuceneRevolution 2012 Recap
I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that…
HIMSS HealthIT Wrapup
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the…