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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’ve been using Redis extensively for Quepid, our search relevancy collaboration canvas. Redis is a convenient and efficient way to interact with in-memory data structures. In fact, we’ve been…
