Indexing Big Data on Amazon AWS: The Screencast
My colleague Scott Stults talks about our experiences in using Amazon EC2 to perform distributed indexing into Solr as well as reprocessing a million TIFF images. At one point we had over 350 EC2 Large...
View ArticleOur own Matt Overstreet introducing Aneesh Chopra at RVA Startup Weekend!
Matt Overstreet was the Master of Ceremonies for the Richmond Startup Weekend earlier this month. And the guest speaker was Aneesh Chopra, first CTO of the United States. Matt Overstreet introducing...
View ArticleBig Search for Big Data: The Screencast
Better late then never, here is the screencast of my presentation Big Search for Big Data that I gave at LuceneRevolution. It’s a story of the mistakes and victories we had in a major search project we...
View ArticleCode quality is a dial too
This article is a preview of my January 22nd talk at Charlottesville’s Neon Guild where I’ll be talking about my experiences with rapid prototyping. If you’re local, I’d love to see you at the meeting...
View Article2-Day Solr Training Coming to Charlottesville in March!
Course Overview OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present Solr Unleashed, a 2-day Solr training course right here in Charlottesville. If you’re new to Solr, then...
View ArticleOpenSource Connections is proud to host beSwarm 4
Opensource Connections is proud to host beSwarm What beSwarm is a gathering of tech enthusiasts from all over central Virginia to discuss, share, and learn about anything that interests us. The idea of...
View ArticleHow cloud computing is revolutionizing pharma and genomics
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data science, software, and...
View ArticleCassandra Tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World NY
It’s just been confirmed that I’ll be giving a tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World this October in New York. My tutorial is: “An Introduction to Real-Time Analytics with Cassandra and Hadoop”. More...
View ArticleForget Search, Lets Talk Discovery — A Recap of Enterprise Search Summit
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended my first ESS back in New York in 2010, and I was...
View ArticleTomorrow is Semantic Day at OpenSource Connections
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the...
View ArticleConference Recap: Defcon
Last week I went to Defcon, the premiere security conference that attracted 15,000 security experts and Will Smith to Las Vegas. Here are a few lessons I learned hanging out with the world’s finest:...
View ArticleGunning for Gold – Competing on an Indian Tech Game Show
Last week I left OSC headquarters in Charlottesville and set off towards Mumbai. I and a friend are competing in the Super Techies Show put on by CapGemini. Cheer on Team All Your Base as we fight for...
View ArticleOSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If you’d like to catch up with us and you’re in Europe, there’s few better places to hear what we’re all about than at one of our talks at Lucene Revolution! We’re happy to be presenting three talks...
View ArticleDatastax MVPs for Cassandra
Last month, John and I were named Datastax MVPs for Cassandra at the Cassandra Summit EU in London, and have now joined the rest of the Datastax Rebel Elite, a recognition for our involvement in the...
View ArticleTalking Search and Discovery to Exploit Data at Enterprise Data World 2014
As a search guy, I think of data as something to exploit in order to solve some business objective, with a focus on moving data along the axis of data becoming information in order to facilitate...
View ArticleLinks I shared at New York City Solr/Lucene Meetup
Thank you everyone who came to my war stories talk on Wednesday. Really enjoyed the conversation, thanks to everyone for asking so many questions! Here are some of the links: Solr Security Proxy that...
View ArticleThe Semantic Web up and coming – impressions of SEMANTiCS 2014
When you hear someone say about a technology that ‘it only works in theory’, ‘it is too labour-intensive’ and ‘it is not industry-ready’, chances are that they are talking about semantic web...
View ArticleCassandra Summit 2014
OpenSource Connections was well represented in San Francisco at this years Cassandra Summit 2014. We had Chris Bradford, Eric Pugh, and Matt Overstreet in attendance for the training, sessions, and...
View ArticleTwo Search Conferences in Two Weeks Was Too Informative
This year I experienced the conference equivalent of a lunar eclipse: two search conferences in two weeks located two hours away from my home town of Charlottesville, Virginia! Enterprise Search Summit...
View ArticleOur own Matt Overstreet introducing Aneesh Chopra at RVA Startup Weekend!
Matt Overstreet was the Master of Ceremonies for the Richmond Startup Weekend earlier this month. And the guest speaker was Aneesh Chopra, first CTO of the United States. Matt Overstreet introducing...
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