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.

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: Search strategies for e-commerce sites. I’ll be giving a webinar tomorrow on Solr/Lucene and e-commerce.  Still not too late to sign up.

Just announced: Apache Lucene EuroCon – May 18-21 2010. CFP is now live for talks in Prague this May. I’m looking forward to my first visit to Prague and also looking forward to talking with all the great Lucene users over in Europe. Hope to see you there, Grant

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).

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: Mastering Solr 1.4 with Yonik Seeley. The title says it all.

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%. [...]