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…
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.
Solr vs Elasticsearch for Relevancy: Battle of the Query DSLs
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Last time on The Young and The RESTful, aka Elasticsearch vs Solr, we took…
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…
What Does an OSC Search Relevancy Tuneup Look Like?
So you’ve stood up Solr or Elasticsearch. Your search app is humming along. However, how do you know your search understands what your users are asking for? Users are…
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…
Solr vs Elasticsearch for Relevancy — Controlling Matching
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Solr vs Elasticsearch! There’s been a TON of posts. But has anyone ever compared…
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…
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) re:Invent conference is one of the biggest cloud conferences in the world. With over 18,000 people in…
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…