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Real-time full-text search with Luwak and Samza
This is an edited transcript of a talk given by Alan Woodward of Flax and Martin Kleppmann at FOSDEM 2015. It was originally published on the Confluent blog. Traditionally, search works like this: you...
View ArticleLondon Lucene/Solr Usergroup – website search and indexing the cloud
This week’s London Lucene/Solr Meetup was hosted by asset management company BlackRock who also provided our first speakers. BlackRock manages an astonishing $4.7 trillion in assets (that’s more than...
View ArticleElasticsearch Meetup – Spark, postcodes and Couchbase
Three speakers for this month’s Elasticsearch Meetup (slides now up), kindly hosted by JustEat’s technical department. Neil Andrassy kicked us off with a talk about how TheFilter (which you may know...
View ArticleFaster bulk indexing in Elasticsearch
We recently did some work for Arachnys who provide data on a wide range of emerging markets. Their data, gathered by a complex process of web crawling, is stored in HBase and served out of a 10-node...
View ArticleWhy building an open source search team is hard – and how we can help
A common complaint from our clients is how difficult it is to find staff with experience of search applications and in particular Apache Lucene/Solr or Elasticsearch. With the explosive growth of open...
View ArticleEnterprise Search Europe 2015 review – day 1
This year’s Enterprise Search Europe started early for me – I had been invited to give the opening keynote, so I made sure I arrived early enough to make sure my laptop would play nicely with the...
View ArticleEnterprise Search Europe 2015 review – day 2
Not such an early start for me for Day 2 (I’d been up pretty late running the Meetup the night before) but I did manage to catch the very end of Findwise‘s presentation on their annual Enterprise...
View ArticleTalks: Replacing Autonomy IDOL with Solr, Elasticsearch for e-commerce &...
I’ll be speaking at several events over the next few weeks, in the UK and abroad. On the 19th of November I’ll be at the FIBEP World Media Intelligence Congress in Vienna, to talk about how we helped...
View ArticleQuepid & Flax – if you’re not testing your search, you’re doing it wrong!
Earlier this year an e-commerce company asked us to look into how they should improve how they tested their website search queries. A relatively simple task you might think – but the company concerned...
View ArticleLuwak 1.3.0 released
The latest version of Luwak, our open-source streaming query engine, has been released on the Sonatype Nexus repository and will be making its way to Maven Central in the next few hours. Here’s a...
View ArticleFIBEP WMIC 2015 – Open source search for media monitoring with Solr
FIBEP WMIC 2015 – How Infomedia upgraded their closed-source search engine to a fast, scalable and flexible open-source platform from Charlie Hull The post FIBEP WMIC 2015 – Open source search for...
View ArticleElasticsearch for Westcoast – why search is never simple!
Elasticsearch for Westcoast from Charlie Hull The post Elasticsearch for Westcoast – why search is never simple! appeared first on Flax.
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2015: Towards a new model of search relevance testing
Find out more about Quepid here. Search Solutions 2015: Towards a new model of search relevance testing from Charlie Hull The post Search Solutions 2015: Towards a new model of search relevance testing...
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Elasticsearch vs. Solr performance: round 2.1
Last week’s post on my performance comparison tests stimulated quite a lot of discussion on the blog and Twitter, not least about the large disparity in index sizes (and many thanks to everyone who...
View ArticleOut and about in search & monitoring – Autumn 2015
It’s been a very busy few months for events – so busy that it’s quite a relief to be back in the office! Back in late November I travelled to Vienna to speak at the FIBEP World Media Intelligence...
View ArticleLondon Text Analytics Meetup – Making sense of text with Lumi, Signal &...
This month’s London Text Analytics Meetup, hosted by Bloomberg in their spectacular Finsbury Square offices, was only the second such event this year, but crammed in three great talks and attracted a...
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Elasticsearch vs. Solr: performance improvements
I had been planning not to continue with these posts, but after Matt Weber pointed out the github pull requests (which to my embarrassment I’d not even noticed) he’d made to address some methodological...
View ArticleXJoin for Solr, part 1: filtering using price discount data
In this blog post I want to introduce you to a new Apache Solr plugin component called XJoin. I’ll show how we can use this to solve a common problem in e-commerce – how to use price discount data,...
View ArticleThe fun and frustration of writing a plugin for Elasticsearch for ontology...
As part of our work on the BioSolr project, I have been continuing to work on the various Elasticsearch ontology annotation plugins (note that even though the project started with a focus on Solr –...
View ArticleXJoin for Solr, part 2: a click-through example
In my last blog post, I demonstrated how to set up and configure Solr to use the new XJoin search components we’ve developed for the BioSolr project, using an example from an e-commerce setting. This...
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