Coming Soon to State Decoded
Updated 8/19/2017 to fix web links State codes are wretched. Seriously, look at a few: California’s, New York’s, Illinois’, and Texas’ are all good examples of how stunningly difficult…
Advanced Suggest-As-You-Type with Solr
In my previous post, I talked about implementing Search-As-You-Type using Solr. In this post Ill cover a closely related functionality called Suggest-As-You-Type. Heres the use case: A user comes…
Search-As-You-Type with Solr
In my previous post, I talked about implementing Suggest-As-You-Type using Solr. In this post I’ll cover a closely related functionality called Suggest-As-You-Type. Several years back, Google introduced an interesting…
Searching with hierarchical fields using Solr
In our recent and continuing effort to make the world a better place, we have been working with the illustrious Waldo Jaquith on a project called StateDecoded. Basically, were…
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…
OpenSource Connections to present at DC Hadoop User Group
OpenSource Connections is investigating the use of Mahout(/Hadoop) to incorporate recommendations and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) into Solr search. In this fast-paced talk well cover the theory behind recommenders…
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…
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…
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…
beSwarm4 – Mission Accomplished
OpenSource Connections was pleased to host this years beSwarm. We had 36 people sign up and from the turn out at the event, most of those who signed up…