Coming this October, OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present two separate Solr training courses. Read on for all the details! Solr Unleashed- October 21-22 Solr…
For the past several months OpenSource Connections headquarters has served as an underground, no-cost coworking hot spot, and weve had such a good time with it that weve decided…
Note: The following post is fantastic… but this one is about the same topic and is even better. \n\n Of late weve been playing around with EmberJS for putting…
Last week I went to Defcon, the premiere security conference that attracted 15,000 security experts and Will Smith to Las Vegas. Here are a few lessons I learned hanging…
CQL3 appears to be the newly ordained, canonical, and best-practices means of interacting with Cassandra. Indeed, the Apache Cassandra documentation itself declares that the Thrift API as “legacy” and…
Refer to my previous post for more in depth details into what Im doing here. This is just a quick reference regarding how Cassandra sets, lists, and maps work…
Please find my piece of hay! To be successful, (e)dismax relies on avoiding a tricky problem with it’s scoring strategy. As we’ve discussed, dismax scores documents by taking…
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable ofanalyzing…
Over the past few years as Ive worked with search, and Solr in particular, I have witnessed a commonly recurring problem associated with multiple objective search and how documents…
So Jonathan, one of our interns this summer, asked an interesting question today about MapReduce. He said, “Lets say you download the entire data set of whos following who…
In the competition between field scores, theres little fairness. When you learn about the dismax query parser for the first time, one of the first things you learn about…
Updated 8/19/2017 to fix web links State codes are wretched. Seriously, look at a few: California’s, New York’s, Illinois’, and Texas’ are all good examples of how stunningly difficult…
