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…
Search Precision and Recall By Example
The following is an excerpt from our upcoming book Relevant Search from a chapter written by OSC alum John Berryman. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Precision…
Semantic Search with Latent Semantic Analysis
A few years ago John Berryman and I experimented with integrating Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) with Solr to build a semantically aware search engine. Recently I’ve polished that work…
Getting Lost in The Amazon: How North Face Site Search secured my sale
Bad site search can halt an e-commerce sale in its tracks. To show that, I wanted to share what happened with a recent purchase of mine. In this tale…
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…
How to Migrate Safely from Google Search Appliance to Solr
It’s terrifying to contemplate switching search engines. Unfortunately, Google Search Appliance is going away fast. Google hasn’t left much time to get off their platform: they close the doors…
Learning What’s Relevant Without The Search
How Predictive Ranking using Elo’s System can be used to understand marketplace trends for re-ranking search results
How to use Luwak to run preset queries against incoming documents
Overview Quite a while ago Flax released Luwak as a document monitoring and alerting library. It was designed to solve the problem of running a lot of predetermined queries…
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…