With a little help from my friends # The end of the year 2009 is quickly approaching. To me it feels a little like it ran away far too quickly. So instead of taking part in the annual review of past events, I would like to use it as an opportunity to say thank you: The past twelve months were a lot of fun with lots of interesting, nice people from all over the world. ...
Moving from Fast to Solr # Sesat has published a nice in-depth report on why to move from Fast to Solr. The article also includes a description of the steps taken to move over as well as several statistics: http://sesat.no/moving-from-fast-to-solr-review.html On a related topic, the following article details, where Apple is using Lucene/Solr to power it’s search. Spoiler: Look at Spotlight, their desktop search, as well as on the iTunes search with about 800 QPS. ...
Open Source Expo 09 # I spent last Sunday and the following Monday at Open Source Expo Karlsruhe - co-located with web-tech and php-conference organized by the Software-and-Support Verlag. Together with Simon Willnauer I ran the Lucene/Mahout booth at the expo. So far the conference is still very small (about 400 visitors) compared to free software community events. However the focus was set to be more on professional users, accordingly several projects showed that free software can be used successfully for various business use cases. ...
Lucene Meetup Oakland # Though pretty late in the evening the room is packed with some 100 people. Most of them solr or pure lucene java users. There are quite a few Lucene committers at the meetup from all over the world. Several even have heard about Mahout - some even used it :) Some introductiory questions to index sizes and query volumn: 1 Mio documents seem pretty standard for Lucene deployments - several people run 10 Mio neither. ...
Open Source Expo # Title: Open Source Expo Location: Karlsruhe Link out: Click here Description: There will be a booth at Open source expo introducing interested visitors to the Apache projects Lucene and Mahout. Of course we are also happy to answer any questions on the ASF in general. Start Date: 2009-11-15 End Date: 2009-11-16
Lucene 2.9 White Paper # Lucid recently published a white paper that explains the changes and improvements that the new 2.9 release incorporates. Interesting for all who are thinking about upgrading to the new lucene version or generally want to know what is going on at Lucene.
Videos are up # As of yesterday the videos of the last Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin are available online. Th anks to the speakers for providing insight in their projects and thanks to Cloudera for sponsoring the videos. The next meetup will be announced soon - three talks have already been proposed. In addition, StudiVZ offered to sponsor video taping of the next Get Together. Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin in December. ...
Lucene 2.9 @ Heise # After last week’s Hadoop Get Together heise published an in-depth article on the changes and improvements that come with the latest Lucene 2.9 release. Thanks to Simon Willnauer for helping me write this article and patiently explaining several new features. Thanks also to Uwe Schindler for kindly proof-reading the article before it was sent out to Heise.
Upcoming: Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # This is a friendly reminder that the next Apache Hadoop Get Together takes place next week on Tuesday, 29th of September* at newthinking store (Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin). Thorsten Schuett, Solving Puzzles with MapReduce. Thilo Götz, Text analytics on jaql. Uwe Schindler, Lucene 2.9 Developments. Big thanks goes to newthinking store for providing the venue for free and to Cloudera for sponsoring videos of the talks. ...
September 2009 Hadoop Get Together Berlin # The newthinking store Berlin is hosting the Hadoop Get Together user group meeting. It features talks on Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, UIMA, katta, Mahout and various other projects that deal with making large amounts of data accessible and processable. The event brings together leaders from the developer and user communities. The speakers present projects that build on top of Hadoop, case studies of applications being built and deployed on Hadoop. ...