Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

The next TriHUG meeting has been announced:  Sept. 14.  There will be two speakers: Wei Wei on Practical Hadoop Security and Me on Hadoop and Lucene and Solr. For more info and to RSVP, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.

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

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!

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.

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!

I will once again be offering my Lucene Boot Camp training session at ApacheCon US this year.  ApacheCon is in Oakland this year and is celebrating 10 years of the ASF.  In addition to my training, there are a number of Lucene/Solr/Mahout/Tika/etc. talks scheduled during the conference as well as a Lucene meetup (free).  For [...]

11 Apache Technologies that Have Changed Computing in the Last 10 Years. Number 3 (not that it implies ordering) on the list:  Apache Lucene.  Couldn’t agree more!

Just wanted to follow up on last night’s Lucene/Solr Meetup in San Francisco. First off, special thanks to all the speakers (Jason Rutherglen, Michael Busch, Erik Hatcher and all the lightning talks.)  We had a lot of excellent talks ranging from low level Lucene details on payloads and real time search to high level discussions [...]

It’s been a while since I reported anything on Mahout (here’s why), but thought I would give an update.  I know it’s been promised before, but the committers have been diligently working on a 0.1 release, which should be out very soon.  I think I have all the Maven release stuff in place and am [...]