Solving data “variety” with Postgress NoSQL Extensions
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 –…
The Semantic Web up and coming – impressions of SEMANTiCS 2014
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…
Recap of Cassandra Summit 2014
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,…
September Chock Full of Talks (Dougtember?)
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…
Introducing Splainer – The Open Source Search Sandbox That Tells You Why
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…
Using Quepid to Improve Relevancy of Advance Auto Parts Intranet Search
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…
Improving The Camel Solr Component
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,…
Reindexing Collections with Solrs Cursor Support
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…
Quepid : Athena Release
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…
RDS is expensive – a cautionary AWS tale
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…
What is Search Relevance?
Have you ever tried a site’s search and been underwhelmed with the accuracy of the results? Do you find yourself feeling frustrated and leaving when the search doesn’t return…
Links I shared at New York City Solr/Lucene Meetup
Thank you everyone who came to my war stories talk on Wednesday. Really enjoyed the conversation, thanks to everyone for asking so many questions! Here are some of the…