Instant Search with Solr and AngularJS
Previously, we gave an example of a super simple search results widget that utilized jsonp and AngularJS. Since then, we’ve polished our Angular skills quite a bit. Enough so,…
Creating a Solr <search> HTML element with AngularJS!
Note: The following post is fantastic… but this one is about the same topic and is even better. \n\n Of late weve been playing around with EmberJS for putting…
Understanding How CQL3 Maps to Cassandras Internal Data Structure
CQL3 appears to be the newly ordained, canonical, and best-practices means of interacting with Cassandra. Indeed, the Apache Cassandra documentation itself declares that the Thrift API as “legacy” and…
Multiple Objective Search Scoring
Over the past few years as Ive worked with search, and Solr in particular, I have witnessed a commonly recurring problem associated with multiple objective search and how documents…
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…
Build Your Own Lucene Codec!
A Lucene Codec, a bit twiddlers dream! Ive been having a lot of fun hacking on a Lucene Codec lately. My hope is to create a Lucene storage layer…
Search is Eating The World | Recap of Lucene Revolution
The team recently spent time at Lucene/Solr Revolution Much of the crew just got back from Lucene Revolution. It was an incredible experience to hang out with the cream-of-the-crop…
Querying More Fields != More Results – Stop wording and Dismax’s minimum should match argument
Let’s recall from Anatomy of a Dismax Query some key components of the dismax query parser: OK, now we’ve had plenty of time to study John’s post (and hey…
How to Debug Solr With Eclipse
Next Stop Debuggersville! Recently I was puzzled by some behavior Solr was showing me. I scratched my head and called over a colleague. We couldnt quite figure out what…
How cloud computing is revolutionizing pharma and genomics
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
The Hello World of MapReduce Scores a Goal for Science!
Just about the first thing youre going to do when you learn MapReduce is do the word frequency job. That just reads in a bunch of text and reports…
2-Day Solr Training Coming to Charlottesville in March!
Course Overview OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present Solr Unleashed, a 2-day Solr training course right here in Charlottesville. If youre new to Solr, then…