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Lucene/Solr search expert

Maine USA
Joined June 2014
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It's wonderful to see practical & important programming work. Debugging concurrent programs is incredibly difficult, here is a bug found in Apache Lucene by the CMU Pasta Lab using their new Fray testing framework elastic.co/search-labs/blog/…
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Operational Advice for Dense and Sparse Retrievers: HNSW, Flat, or Inverted Indexes? @lintool evaluates tradeoffs between HNSW and flat indexes in dense retrieval, comparing performance, efficiency, and quality across index types and retrieval models. 📝arxiv.org/abs/2409.06464
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The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.2.0. <solr.apache.org/downloads.ht…> Highlights: - Internally uses Jetty 10 instead of Jetty 9. - Now includes an OpenTracing module, with support for OTEL tracing in OTLP format using gRPC.
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The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.1.1. <solr.apache.org/downloads.ht…> Highlights: - Bug fix for pagination on MatchAllDocs - Bug fix for replicas registration - Bug fixes for KNN search pre-filtering and defaults
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Here's a great example of how our client work sometimes leads to major improvements in #opensource search - OSC's @compuwizard123 has contributed a fix to a #Solr performance issue around cached filter queries issues.apache.org/jira/brows… .... [1/..]
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🤣 #DevOps – at Markt Schwaben, Deutschland
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Check out the new additions to solr.cool, a repository of interesting Solr utilities and plugins. #solr @ApacheSolr
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Oracle introduced the first microservices framework based on virtual threads (JEP 425) called Helidon Níma. It is built from the ground up to achieve an easy-to-use programming model with outstanding performance: bit.ly/3Sai2OE @bazlur_rahman #Java #InfoQ
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The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.0.0! Solr 9.0.0 is available for immediate download at: solr.apache.org/downloads.ht… Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features, changes and bugfixes: solr.apache.org/9_0_0/change… (1/4)
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The wait is soon over… Community VOTE for releasing #Apache #Solr 9.0.0 RC1, is now running. Go test it out! #search #opensource #lucene @ApacheSolr
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Do you know about MICES ()? And that it's coming to North America? Mix-Camp E-commerce Search -> It's a great community conference to get to know your peers in e-commerce search across disciplines (product, data, ux, eng...). It's…lnkd.in/eK2dbVEb mices.co/
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I saw the justifications: personally I just disagree with them. This is a great example where security manager can shine: "I'm not going to give my logging library permissions to use the network, it doesn't need that"
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Congratulations to Apache Arrow, Apache Solr, and Apache Superset for winning InfoWorld Bossie Awards for the best Open Source software of 2021! infoworld.com/article/363703… #Apache #OpenSource #innovation #community
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The biggest lesson I’ve learned in building a $4B company: It’s all about the people. I’m thrilled to announce today that Bolt is the first tech unicorn to officially shift to a 4 day work week. Here’s why we did it and how we came to the decision 👇👇👇
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