Catching MICES in Berlin for e-commerce search
MICES is a one-day, free to attend event held in Berlin just after the Berlin Buzzwords conference – it’s a combination of talks and less formal discussion sessions, run…
Zookeeper Resiliency for Solr Cloud in AWS, using Auto-Scaling Groups
We’re very happy to present a guest blog by Alex Addison, Senior Developer at LexisNexis UK. Alex’s team will be presenting a talk on some of their work at…
Summer of Relevance: Tickets Available!
Did you miss Haystack? This summer, we’ll be fulfilling our mission of empowering search teams, showing you how it’s done with 100% open source tools, by holding a full…
Haystack 2019 day 2 – doubling down on relevance with the Relevance Avengers
I’ve already written about the first day of Haystack 2019, here’s a quick summary of the second day. We returned to the cinema, noted that Avengers Endgame was still…
Haystack 2019 day 1 – grab your popcorn, it’s Relevance Avengers time
You may remember I was ever so slightly enthusiastic about last year’s inaugural Haystack conference in Charlottesville, Virginia – it would perhaps be unseemly to be so effusive again,…
Test-driven search relevance tuning – for free!
As you may know OpenSource Connections has a commitment to search relevance that goes beyond our expert consultancy and training – we genuinely want to build a community of…
Stop Worrying about Solr vs Elasticsearch Decisions
I used to fall into a trap that many search teams do. Faced with a seemingly consequential choice, with two products that seem to be fairly similar, it’s easy…
Flax has joined OpenSource Connections
Flax has joined OpenSource Connections! On February 1st 2019 Flax’s Managing Director Charlie Hull joined OpenSource Connections (OSC), Flax’s long-standing US partner, as a senior Managing Consultant. Charlie manages…
A Synonym By Any Other Name: From Alt. Labels to Knowledge Graphs
There’s been some discussion lately on what the behavior of synonyms should be in Solr and Elasticsearch. As you know, this is one of our favorite topics. At the…
Relevance Engineering is Here to Stay: Haystack EU 2018 Recap
Thanks Flax and Rene Kriegler for partnering to plan a tremendous Haystack EU event in early October. It was gratifying to see the relevance community come together. I love…
Think AI will solve your search problems? Ask these questions first
It’s understandable to be frustrated with search. You’ve probably heard someone like OSC lecturing you on relevance best practices, taxonomies, metrics, measurement, and more. You’ve probably thought “wow that’s…
Why We Created Search Relevance Training
I am a big proponent of Solr and Elasticsearch search engines BUT… … they are frameworks. A bag of tools. I can teach you how they fit together in…