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Have Your Say in the Name for the 2013 Eclipse Release

Last year it was Indigo, this year it will be Juno, and now the Eclipse community is voting on a name for the Eclipse release for June 2013. All you need to do...

0 replies - 4663 views - 01/12/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

Solr select query GET vs POST request

In most cases a GET request is used to send select queries to Solr. This is how it’s done in most examples, it’s easy to test in the browser and easy...

1 replies - 4833 views - 01/10/12 by Bas De Nooijer in Articles

Personal gains from contributing to Open Source

Many may find it difficult to understand why certain people spend a lot of their spare time producing stuff without being paid and then give it away for...

0 replies - 4843 views - 01/10/12 by Kristoffer Sjögren in Articles

The Beautiful Marriage of MongoDB and Redis

I am on the record as being a MongoDB fan, admirer, and devotee. I never...

0 replies - 17206 views - 01/09/12 by Cody Powell in Articles

Search Solutions 2011: Highlights and Reflections

In November I had the privilege of co-chairing the 5th Search Solutions conference, held at BCS London in Covent Garden. As in previous years we had an...

0 replies - 3294 views - 12/28/11 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Cassandra & Solr Integration in Virgil GUI

Up front, I'd like to say this is still pretty raw. We'd love to get feedback and contributions.That said, Virgil (a services layer and GUI on top of...

0 replies - 5157 views - 12/15/11 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Solr 4.0: DocTransformers first look

In todays entry we will look at the next feature that will come with version 4.0 of Apache Solr. We will look at the functionality which enables us to...

0 replies - 3580 views - 12/13/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Two ways of using Redis to build a NoSQL autocomplete search index

Last week I demonstrated how to setup autocomplete in a new Rails 3.1 app using the Soulmate gem, from SeatGeek. Soulmate uses Redis to cache all of the...

1 replies - 6032 views - 12/06/11 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles

Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

Performance testing of software systems is discussed frequently as an episodic activity that is accomplished once per production release as the final step in...

0 replies - 3535 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

Web sites and web applications have transformed business. They are crucial to your company’s bottom line, whether you are involved in e-commerce, have a...

0 replies - 3498 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

How DataSift is Datamining 120K Tweets Per Second

Attention architectural gurus!  Get ready to learn about how one company puts together its amazing datamining architecture, and hopefully you'll also walk...

1 replies - 7776 views - 11/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Cool GO annotation visualizations with Gephi + Bio4j

Hi everyone! After a few months without finding the opportunity to play with Gephi, it was already time to dedicate a lab day to this. I thought that...

2 replies - 4250 views - 11/29/11 by Pablo Pareja Tobes in Articles

Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB

My first book, Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB, was published by O’Reilly Media some time ago. It is a short and concise ebook with...

0 replies - 3642 views - 11/29/11 by Bradley Holt in Articles

CouchDB Image Takes a Hit: Dropped from Ubuntu One

While it's certainly no reason to declare the death of CouchDB, Canonical's recent decision to drop CouchDB as their data store for Ubuntu One is a pretty...

0 replies - 5441 views - 11/29/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

MontySolr: A Search Solution for Python Lovers With the Speed of Native Java

The folks at CERN wanted a better way to search High Energy Physics fulltext paper repositories and bibliographical databases that produce result set numbers...

0 replies - 4412 views - 11/26/11 by David Pell in Articles