How Getty Images Executes Managed Search with Apache Solr
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Austin this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Jacob Graves’s session on...
View ArticleHow Bloomberg Scales Apache Solr in a Multi-tenant Environment
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Austin this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Bloomberg engineer Harry...
View ArticlePushing the Limits of Apache Solr at Bloomberg
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Austin this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Anirudha Jadhav’s session...
View ArticleHow StubHub De-Dupes with Apache Solr
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Austin this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting StubHub engineer Neeraj...
View ArticleLasso Some Prizes by Stumping The Chump in Austin Texas
Professional Rodeo riders typically only have a few seconds to prove themselves and win big prizes. But you’ve still got two whole weeks to prove you can Stump The Chump with your tough Lucene/Solr...
View ArticleBuilding a Large Scale SEO/SEM Application with Apache Solr
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View ArticleApproaching Join Index in Apache Lucene
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Austin this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Mikhail Khludnev’s session...
View ArticleQuantifying Performance Gains When Batching Indexing Updates to Solr
Batching when indexing is good: For quite some time it’s been part of the lore that one should batch updates when indexing from SolrJ (the post tool too, but I digress). I recently had the occasion to...
View ArticleImplementing Apache Solr at Target
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Austin this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting Target engineer Raja...
View ArticleKnow When To Hold ’em … Know When To Run – Time Is Running Out To Stump The...
Are you a Gambler? Even if you aren’t, what are you waiting for? There’s no ante or no buy in needed to “go all in” for a nice pot of prize money in this years Stump The Chump contest at Lucene/Solr...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s Galene Search Architecture Built on Apache Lucene
As we countdown to the annual Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Austin this October, we’re highlighting talks and sessions from past conferences. Today, we’re highlighting LinkedIn engineers Diego...
View ArticleData As a Virtuous Cycle
Deck from Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes’s opening remarks on the first day of Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015. Video coming soon. Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015 Opening Keynote with Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes from...
View ArticleFocusing on Search Quality at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015
I just got back from Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015 in Austin on a big high. There were a lot of exciting talks at the conference this year, but one thing that was particularly exciting to me was the...
View ArticleStump The Chump: Austin Winners
Last week was another great Stump the Chump session at Lucene/Solr Revolution in Austin. After a nice weekend of playing tourist and eating great BBQ, today I’m back at my computer and happy to...
View ArticleSolr on Docker
It is now even easier to get started with Solr: you can run Solr on Docker with a single command: $ docker run --name my_solr -d -p 8983:8983 -t solr That creates a new Docker container using the new...
View ArticleLucidworks Announces $21 Million in Series D Funding
It’s a great Wednesday: Lucidworks, the chosen search solution for leading brands and organizations around the world, today announced $21 million in new financing. Allegis Capital led the round with...
View ArticleQuery Autofiltering IV: – A Novel Approach to Natural Language Processing
This is my fourth blog post on a technique that I call Query Autofiltering. The basic idea is that we can use meta information stored within the Solr/Lucene index itself (in the form of string or...
View ArticlePagerDuty Integration in Lucidworks Fusion
Alerts in Fusion Sending alerts messages is not a new feature for Fusion. Since version 1.4, Fusion users could use an integrated Messaging system to log or send out email or Slack alerts in response...
View ArticleVisualizing Search Results in Solr: /browse and Beyond
The Series This is the second in a three part series demonstrating how it’s possible to build a real application using just a few simple commands. The three parts to this are: Getting data into Solr...
View ArticleData Security and Human Insecurities: How Scammers Take Advantage
Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes latest Forbes columns looks at the ways scammers take advantage of the big holes in big data to prey on all of us: “The immense amount of data we expose about ourselves make...
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