Understanding Solr Soft Commits and Data Durability
I ran into an interesting problem today. I was working with the first project where we legitimately needed Solr soft commits and in testing my configuration I wanted to…
Beginner Tips for Elastic MapReduce
By this point everyone is well acquainted with the power of Hadoops MapReduce. But what youre also probably well acquainted with is the pain that must be suffered when…
Modifying Solr Result Relevancy via an “Auxiliary Boost” Field
English is a confusing language. I mean, does it really make sense that you can park in a driveway or drive in a parkway? Also, Ive always been amused…
Solr Unleashed – Mission Accomplished
This past Wednesday and Thursday (March 13th and 14th) OpenSource Connections held an on-site 2-day Solr training course called Solr Unleashed. We covered a broad range of Solr topics…
Finally! A Hadoop Hello World that isnt a Lame Word Count!
So I got bored of the old WordCount Hello World, and being a fairly mathy person, I decided to make my own Hello World in which I coaxed Hadoop…
Getting started quickly with Hadoop and MapReduce
So heres the problem: Youve finally found a block of time to set down and get your head around Hadoop and MapReduce. You do a quick Google search for…
The Anatomy of a DisMax Query
While debugging the functionality of a new query parser, I had the poor fortune rare opportunity to dig deep into Solrs search scoring code. I ended up learning a…
Indexing StackOverflow in Solr
One thing I really like about Solr is that its super easy to get started. You just download solr, fire it up, and then after following the 10 minute…
Building Suggest-As-You-Type with Carrot2 Clustering
The first interaction that a customer has with your e-commerce web site is with the search box itself. So it is of utmost importance to make the user experience…
Using Solr Join to find the best time to ask questions on StackOverflow
So lets say that you have an important tech question that simply must be answered: “What’s the difference between JavaScript and Java?” Normally you would post it on StackOverflow…
Convenient Solr Feature: Facet over the same field multiple times with different filters
Did you know that you can facet over the same field more than once? Did you know that you can rename the facet field? Did you know that you…
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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…