Introducing Splainer – The Open Source Search Sandbox That Tells You Why
One piece of feedback that has consistently come with our Quepid search testing tool is the need to understand “why” search results come back the order they do. In…
Using Quepid to Improve Relevancy of Advance Auto Parts Intranet Search
Recently, Advance Auto Parts contacted OSC to improve the search relevancy of their intranet application, Starting Line. Starting Line serves as the knowledge base for every store employee, so…
Improving The Camel Solr Component
Weve been using Apache Camel a fair amount recently as our ingestion pipeline of choice. It presents a fairly nice DSL for wiring together different data sources, performing transformations,…
Reindexing Collections with Solrs Cursor Support
When a Solr schema changes, us Solr devs know whats next – a large reindex of all of our data to capture any changes to index-time analysis. When we…
Quepid : Athena Release
As the newest full time developer working on Opensource Connections search relevancy tool, Quepid, Im happy to announce that our newest release, codenamed “Athena”, is now live. This release…
RDS is expensive – a cautionary AWS tale
I wanted to share with the world a cautionary story related to my by @softwaredoug that reminded me that while Amazon AWS is amazing, its also best used in…
Crawling with Nutch
Recently, I had a client using LucidWorks search engine who needed to integrate with the Nutch crawler. This sounds simple as both products have been around for a while…
Improving Angular Dirty Checking Performance
We build a lot of search applications, including our search relevancy workbench, Quepid or the US Patent and Trademarks Offices Global Patent Navigator Search. A big part of making…
Correctly Using Camels AdviceWith in Unit Tests
Ready to take your data from A to B through any terrain 🙂 We care a lot about the stuff that goes around Solr and Elasticsearch in our clients…
Indexing Polygons in Lucene with Accuracy
Apache Lucene is a Java toolkit that provides a rich set of search capabilities like keyword search, query suggesters, relevancy, and faceting. It also has a spatial module for…
Using CustomScoreQuery For Custom Solr/Lucene Scoring
This is a preview of a talk Ill be giving entitled Hacking Lucene for Custom Search Results at ApacheCon. Come join me April 7-9th in Denver! Lucene is the…
A Simple Promise Implementation in about 20 lines of Javascript
Promises are a rather convenient way of creating readable asynchronous code. More importantly, implementing Promises is a great way to hone your ability to grok async code. So follow…