Let’s recall from Anatomy of a Dismax Query some key components of the dismax query parser: OK, now we’ve had plenty of time to study John’s post (and hey…
I just spent some time putting together some basic Java code to read some data from HDFS. Pretty basic stuff. No map reduce involved. Pretty boilerplate code like the…
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
Last month we found the best time to ask a question on StackOverflow using the oft-missed ‘join’ feature in Solr. Numbers will get you far in isolating the top-performing…
While debugging the functionality of a new query parser, I had the poor fortune rare opportunity to dig deep into Solrs search scoring code. I ended up learning a…
The first interaction that a customer has with your e-commerce web site is with the search box itself. So it is of utmost importance to make the user experience…
My first attempt at using Puppet to automate a server build was not as easy as Id hoped. The goal seemed simple enough: Build a RedHat server running Solr…
So I’ve got a new hooptie laptop (a pimped out Sager NP9170). Since I’m pretty much changing everything about my career, I thought I’d stick to one thing staying…
Hi! Im Doug Turnbull, the new guy. Im really excited to be joining Open Source Connections. Ive been seeing first hand how capable my new colleagues are and am…
Our publisher for Solr Enterprise Search Server, Packt Publishing, has just announced that they have published their 1000 book. Packt has been great at fostering new writers like David…
For the past year Ive been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs…