The State of Elasticsearch (Part 1 of “The State of Search”)
Andrew Montalenti from Parse.ly joins Doug Turnbull and Joe Lawson to talk all things Elasticsearch.
JRuby Kafka v2.0 and v1.5 released
The stars aligned December 31, 2015 and jruby-kafka got two releases v2.0 and v1.5 to celebrate and end the year on a high note. Both versions are now available…
JavaBeans and SolrJ and Realtime Get Oh My!
A project that I’m working on was previously using AWS DynamoDB for state tracking of processing workloads. We got, very late in the project, the mandate to move away…
Exploring Custom TypeCodecs in the Cassandra Java Driver
Here’s a great Cassandra blog from some years ago – check out the source on GitHub. For more information dig in to the explanation below. Did you know we’re…
Quepid Migrates from Flask to Rails
Something has been cooking We recently worked on moving Quepid from a Python backend to a Ruby backend, something Joel Spolsky would frown upon: “They did it by making…
Graph Phun in Solr
Recently Solr has acquired graph search capability similar to what you’d find in TitanDB or Neo4J. Essentially it acts asa collector that traverses link_from to link_to, while optionally applying…
Quepid Announced
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 9, 2015 – OpenSource Connections, a search and discovery consulting firm specializing in user engagement and relevancy, has launched Quepid, its search relevance testing and monitoring…
Exclusions in Field Lists in Solr
Back in 2012 Luca Cavanna opened an issue on the Solr Jirarequesting a field exclusion syntax. Right now it’s the 5th highest-voted ticket, and it’s easy to understand why.Documents…
Recap of Cassandra Summit 2015
This year OpenSource Connections rolled into Cassandra Summit with 4 attendees. Eric Pugh, Matt Overstreet, and John Woodell attended some of the 137 sessions offered. Matt walked away from…
OSC is Proud to Support Charlottesville Women in Tech (CWiT)!
When the Charlottesville Women in Technology (CWiT) team first contacted Opensource Connections (OSC) about whether or not we wanted to sponsor CWiT for the year, to be honest I…
Quepid Scores with Custom Scorers!
Until recently, the only option for scoring results in Quepid was a simplistic 1 to 10 scale with a standard Quepid scoring algorithm. Now users can create their own…
Advanced AWS CLI JMESPath Query Tricks
JMESPath Query in the AWS CLI At OSC we empower the world’s best search teams – if you have a search engine project using Apache Solr or Elasticsearch and…