Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Lots of goodness this week at ApacheCon, at least when it comes to Lucene, Solr, Mahout, Tika and Hadoop (i.e. the Lucene eco-system).  There’s 2 full days on Hadoop, with lots of coverage of all the pieces that go into Hadoop.  There’s also a full day of Lucene related talks, plus Erik and I are [...]

ZooKeeper/Tao – Hadoop Wiki I like Zookeeper already, and I just started looking at it…  Hopefully the code lives up to the Tao.

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU I’ll be at BarCampRDU tomorrow.  I proposed two sessions, one on Hadoop and Mahout and one on Lucene and Solr.  I don’t think I really want to do both, but I would like to do at least one, so we’ll see what other people are interested in. If you’re around and [...]

HP, Intel and Yahoo To Research Cloud Computing – Yahoo News Boy, this could really come in handy in Open Source, especially projects like Mahout, Nutch and distributed Solr.  I find my biggest personal challenge on Mahout is access to computing resources.  I personally don’t have the financial backing to buy much time on Amazon [...]

Apache Hadoop Wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!) Congrats to the Hadoop team!  Score one for Open Source!

Wow!  Mahout has just got me pumped up.  I feel like we’ve got a lot of positive momentum and that we are starting to get the various pieces of our suite of machine learning libraries in place.  Various news items include: Ted Dunning is now a committer!  Welcome Ted! I put up a patch for [...]

Manning: Taming Text Scary…  I guess it is real!

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU Threw my name in the ring for BarCamp RDU today.  Haven’t been to BarCamp before, but Erik Hatcher suggested I go and check it out. Also put in a Proposed Session of “Apache Mahout and Hadoop – Having fun with Map Reduce and distributed computing”.  Figure we talk about the basics of [...]

It’s been an interesting few months over in Mahout land. First off, I am psyched about the response the project has been getting. Seems like there is a pent up demand for large scale machine learning these days.  I figured we would do all right in the early months, but I didn’t think we would [...]

Jeff Eastman’s Marvelous Cloud Computing Adventure Mahout’s newest committer, Jeff Eastman, has a new blog on Mahout and Hadoop…