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Book: Search Patterns

July 28, 2012
search, Science, review, patterns, book, Design, oreilly

Book: Search Patterns # I got the book months ago during FOSDEM - the O’Reilly book table always is a pretty dangerous place as a meeting point for me: Search Patterns - Design for Discovery is one of those small, deceivingly beautiful books that manages to explain effective search engine design by focusing on the end user needs but going into some detail concerning the basics of search engine backends as well. ...

Large Scalability - Papers and implementations

June 23, 2009
search, Hacking, Free Software, Hadoop, Software Foundation

Large Scalability - Papers and implementations # In recent years the Googles and Amazons on this world have released papers on how to scale computing and processing to terrabytes of data. These publications have led to the implementation of various open source projects that benefit from that knowledge. However mapping the various open source projects to the original papers and assigning tasks that these projects solve is not always easy. ...