Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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.

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 [...]

Join the Lucene Revolution in Boston October 2010 | www.lucenerevolution.org. Hope to see you in Boston!

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.

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

Ted Dunning and I did an interview with InfoQ on Mahout.  You can read it at: InfoQ: Mahout 0.3: Open Source Machine Learning.

Readers might find my first post on integrating Lucene/Solr and Mahout interesting: Lucid Imagination » Integrating Apache Mahout with Apache Lucene and Solr – Part I (of 3).

For those who live in the Triangle, I’ll be giving an intro talk on Mahout next Monday.  See Welcome to the Triangle Java Users Group for more details.  Due note the location is no longer in RTP, but at the Red Hat campus at NCSU. Hope to see you there!

Hardly news anymore about MS dropping support for *NIX platforms, but I especially like J Lawson’s nice little quote about their switch from FAST to Apache Solr/Lucene: We very quickly switched to Apache Lucene, Solr and are very happy with the result. Performance is good, and we have cut hosting costs by a staggering 400%. [...]