By Grant IngersollNovember 9, 2011
| Tuesday, 15 November 2011 | ||
| 18:30 | to | 23:30 |
For those of you in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill NC area, Lucid Imagination is sponsoring the next (and ongoing) Triangle Hadoop Users Group Meeting, November 15, 2011 @ Bronto Software in Durham, NC. The next meeting will feature Alan Gates of Hortonworks. Alan will be speaking on Apache Pig and HCatalog. To RSVP and find out more, visit www.trihug.org.…
By Grant IngersollSeptember 18, 2011
From a quiet start as a pet project to a giant in the industry, Apache Lucene is definitely the little (search) engine that could. On September 18th, 2001 (at 16:29:48 UTC) Jason Van Zyl made the first official import of Doug Cutting’s Lucene project (which started in 1997 and was hosted on SourceForge) into Apache’s Jakarta project (check out the Wayback machine).
And while I wasn’t around in the beginning, I thought I would …
By Grant IngersollSeptember 10, 2010
In my preparation for my upcoming talk on Apache Hadoop and Search, I thought I would try out using Nutch (the genesis for Hadoop) to index some content to Solr. I started off by referencing Sami Siren’s excellent post on Nutch and Solr (which worked flawlessly for 1.1 for me on OS X) to get up and going, but quickly hoped there is a much easier way to do this than typing in all …
By Grant IngersollAugust 19, 2010
| Tuesday, 14 September 2010 | ||
| 13:00 |
Just a quick announcement that I will be speaking on using Hadoop with Lucene and Solr at the next Triangle Hadoop Users Group on Sept. 14. So, if you are in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area on that night, please stop in. For more information and to RSVP, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.
Cheers,
Grant…
By Grant IngersollJuly 9, 2010
Here are my slides from the talk I gave last night at the RTP Semantic Web Group:
By Grant IngersollJune 11, 2010
Back from Berlin Buzzwords and finally over the jet lag, so I thought I would put up some feedback. First off, it was a well organized conference with a nice focus on searching, storage and scaling. Kudos to Isabel, Simon and Jan for all their hard work. It also had great wi-fi coverage, which is always a struggle at every conference I’ve ever been too.
As for the talks, I gave the Keynote on using …
By Grant IngersollApril 22, 2010
After reviewing a lot of great talk proposals, we’ve announced the agenda for Apache Lucene Eurocon: Apache Lucene EuroCon – Europe’s Premier Lucene and Solr Search User Conference.
One of the things I really like about this agenda is it is a great mix of basics, use cases from all over the search map (CMS, news, social media, advertising), business decisions (see last list and next list) and advanced topics (NLP, collab filtering, machine …
By Grant IngersollMarch 16, 2010
As Apache Mahout is about to release its next version (0.3), I thought I would share some thoughts on how it might be integrated with Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. For those who aren’t aware of Mahout, it is an ASF project building out a library of machine learning algorithms that are designed to be scalable (often via Apache Hadoop) and licensed under the Apache Software License (i.e., commercially friendly). Mahout has a …