What’s up with multi-term synonyms in Solr?
There were some questions floating around the Solr mailing lists about multi-term synonyms and a few notable answers are as follows. The short version is, it’s complicated and every…
Building Gor (Go Replay) on Windows
Gor, or Go Replay, is a great tool to replicate traffic from a production system to a test environment. The tool itself comes prebuilt for OSX and Linux however…
Recommender Systems 101: Basket Analysis
You’ve probably seen “buyers also bought” recommendations. To drive more sales, you highlight items that are frequently purchased together. For example, the screenshot below shows “frequently bought together” for…
Building Apache Flume to use Solr 6 as a sink
Using the latest Solr with Apache Flume can be difficult because the MorphlineSolrSink in the 1.6 release is stuck supporting Solr 4. However, Cloudera contributed solr-morphlines-core and solr-morphlines-cell to the Solr project and with a few tricks Flume can be updated to the latest and greatest Solr.
It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
This blog post contains the code from the talk I gave at the NYC Solr/Lucene Meetup entitled It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, it’s a Dirigible. Apache Zeppelin: Query…
Run Installed Elasticsearch from Your Shell
Got Elasticsearch installed on an Ubuntu/Debian box? Want to run it directly from the command line? It’s handy to recreate how Elasticsearch actually runs on your box. You might…
Solr 6, What’s New?
Solr 6 is now available! What’s included, and what can you do with it? Yonik Seeley and Erik Hatcher join us to talk about what’s new.
Shipping Containers – effectively deploying containers in the cloud.
This is part 2 of a 3 part series on our move to containers as a platform for Quepid. Be sure to check out Part 1 on generating deployable…
Generating Deployable Quepid Artifacts with Containers
This is part 1 of a 3 part series on our move to containers as a platform for Quepid. As Quepid has matured OSC has gone through an evolution…
Hey Kibana, is anyone listening to my Podcast?
“Dashboard all the things!” was my motto leaving Elastic{ON} this year. I played a game that week trying to think of all the previously complex software projects that might…
Searching the Unexpected
Maybe I’m the only one, but it seems like the internet is getting smaller every day. There was a time when the internet felt like a giant room of…
The State of Solr (Part 2 of “The State of Search”)
An all-star panel sits down to talk about the state of Solr and the upcoming Solr 6 release. Erik Hatcher from Lucidworks joins Alan Woodward and Charlie Hull from…