Thoughts on Algolia (vs Solr & Elasticsearch)
After getting cranky on one Algolia blog post, and having a Search Disco episode with Julien Lemoine CTO of Algolia, I’m left fascinated by the solution. Algolia, so…
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…
Splainer: The Elasticsearch Relevance Sandbox That Tells You Why
Have you looked at a scoring explain out of Elasticsearch? Perhaps you’ve had a tricky relevance problem. You’ve needed to debug Elasticsearch’s scoring. Unfortunately the relevance scoring for Elasticsearch…
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…
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…
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…
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…