Enterprise Search, System Administration, and Cloud Computing

Amazon Web Services: My EBS is stuck!

Karen Lynn — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Many of us were affected by the Amazon EBS issues at the end of October 2012. If you had EC2 instances in us-east-1, you were likely affected by the issues.

Mountain Lion Roars….and Leaves Some Blood

Karen Lynn — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:13:22 +0000

One issue I ran into when installing Virtualbox revolved around Apple’s software installation security in Mountain Lion

TNR Global Launches Search Application for Museum Collections

Karen Lynn — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:26:24 +0000

We use open source search technology that works with most museum software systems and databases including the popular museum software product PastPerfect.

The Future of Search Doesn’t Come in a Box: The Google Mini Says Goodbye

Karen Lynn — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:36:13 +0000

The future of search doesn’t come in a box. Last week while many were on vacation, Google abandoned the smallest member of its’ Search Appliance family, the Google Mini. The small blue piece of external hardware was used for smaller data sets with a stable, some might say stagnant, data with slow and steady query rates. [...]

Bishop: Makes Your Web Service Shiny

Karen Lynn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:12:14 +0000

The idea is to provide a relatively small library that will make your life easier and hopefully more pleasant by making it straightforward to provide a consistent web service API that obeys HTTP semantics.

New Systems and DevOps Blog

Karen Lynn — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:33:40 +0000

has lots of new approaches to discuss in terms of systems, cloud computing, DevOps, System Architecture, and how developers and systems staff need to communicate well and work together

Fast to Lucene Solr: Choosing a Document Processing Pipeline for Solr

Karen Lynn — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:45:17 +0000

If we want to leverage the power that Solr offers, but we need support for a more robust document processing framework, what are our options?

Elasticsearch Evaluation White Paper Released: Promising for Big Data

Karen Lynn — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:11:14 +0000

We believe that Elasticsearch is a product that everyone working in the field of big data will want to take a look at.

For Many Companies, Migration to a New Search Engine is Inevitable

Karen Lynn — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:09:06 +0000

"It's basically a road map for companies looking at options for migration, and we outline Solr as a very good option"

Mobile Search: Good UX means fewer touches, simple design

Karen Lynn — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:45:17 +0000

Mobile search must be designed for a minimum number of touches before users arrive at the end result. If it takes more than 2-3 touches, the user will look elsewhere for answers.