Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition

Triangle Hadoop Users Group First Meeting

grant_ingersoll — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:23:22 +0000

I’m pleased to announce a few of us Apache Hadoop users in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill North Carolina) have finally reached critical mass since I sent out an email over a year ago to the Hadoop mailing list asking for interested people. We’ve found a place to meet and discuss the Hadoop ecosystem, so please join us at our first meeting on July 20th at Bronto Software. Find out more details at: Triangle Hadoop Users Group

We are starting with some introductory talks, but we will no doubt get much deeper very quickly. If you’d like to give a talk or sponsor or just attend, drop on over to the TriHUG website for more information.

Apache Mahout’s got a brand new look

grant_ingersoll — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:53:37 +0000

Thanks to committer Robin Anil for putting together Mahout’s shiny new website: Apache Mahout:: Scalable machine-learning and data-mining library.

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: How Cisco’s Pulse uses Lucene/Solr to put Social Networks to Work

grant_ingersoll — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:25:34 +0000

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: How Cisco’s Pulse uses Lucene/Solr to put Social Networks to Work.

‘Nuff said.

LSA for Apache Solr using Mahout and Clojure

grant_ingersoll — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:46:58 +0000

ccri – Blog – Latent Semantic Analysis in Solr using Clojure. I’ve been watching the github site for a while, nice to see some more written up on it.

Guardian Case Study: Amazon Web Services

grant_ingersoll — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:03:33 +0000

Amazon has a nice Guardian Case Study: Amazon Web Services up on their website about how the Guardian is using EC2 for scaling their Open Platform API. If you’ve been following along, the little boxes in the picture (the blue and gold ones) are actually Apache Solr. If you want to read more about the Solr part of it, check out the Lucid Imagination press release, which will lead you to more details on it.

Join the Lucene Revolution in Boston October 2010 | www.lucenerevolution.org

grant_ingersoll — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:45:38 +0000

Join the Lucene Revolution in Boston October 2010 | www.lucenerevolution.org.

Hope to see you in Boston!

NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup 11 May 2010 – NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup New York, NY – Meetup.com

grant_ingersoll — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:35:37 +0000

Yonik Seeley and Breck Baldwin will each be presenting next week in NYC on Solr and Lucene. Details at: NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup 11 May 2010 – NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup New York, NY – Meetup.com.

RedMonk Podcasts: Search as a database – Grant Ingersoll on Solr & Lucene

grant_ingersoll — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:53:19 +0000

Really enjoyed my conversation with Michael Coté earlier in the week on NoSQL, Lucene/Solr as a persistence engine and a variety of other topics. You can hear the conversation at: RedMonk Podcasts.

Lucene Boot Camp Europe: May 18-19 in Prague

grant_ingersoll — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:10:44 +0000

Lucene Boot Camp » Lucene Boot Camp Europe: May 18-19 in Prague.

In case you didn’t hear…

grant_ingersoll — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:10:07 +0000

Chris Hostetter is now a part of Lucid Imagination on a full time basis. Check out his first blog post at Lucid Imagination » Why Lucene? Why Lucid?.

Welcome aboard, Hoss!