Have you heard of “click scoring” or “click tracking”? In the context of search click scoring is the method whereby you collect statistics on where users click in their…
NoSQL to describe a database makes about as much sense as “NoSedan” to describe a car I say the word “NoSQL” a lot. When I say NoSQL, I tend…
Raise your hand if you’ve heard the three “Vs” of Big Data? Velocity – your query/updates are exceptionally fast or large. Your processing the entire twitter feed. Volume –…
When you hear someone say about a technology that it only works in theory, it is too labour-intensive and `it is not industry-ready, chances are that they are talking…
OpenSource Connections was well represented in San Francisco at this years Cassandra Summit 2014. We had Chris Bradford, Eric Pugh, and Matt Overstreet in attendance for the training, sessions,…
I somehow managed to line up a speaking gig for every week in September! I hope youll join me on this insane marathon. Ill be talking about topics key…
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…
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…
