Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Some of you may have noted that I’ve been quieter than usual lately.  Well, the reason is I was preparing for the launch of the new company I helped found: Lucid Imagination.   Now, I don’t blog too often about what I do for work on this site, other than it is Lucene, Solr and [...]

Ted Dunning has a nice blurb on “scale free” development and Mahout/Hadoop/Map Reduce that is worth the quick read:
Surprise and Coincidence – musings from the long tail: Real-time decision making using map-reduce

Some good new stuff happening in Lucene and Solr.  For starters, Local Lucene and Local Solr are in various stages of committing, thanks to Ryan McKinley and Patrick O’Leary, amongst others.  What does this mean?  You can use Lucene to search for things in an area (i.e. find local coffee shops)
Next up, we’ve added Uwe [...]