I was lucky enough to attend the London ElasticSearch User Group's Meetup last night - around 130 people came to the Goldman Sachs offices in Fleet Street with many more on the waiting list. It signifies quite how much interest there is in ElasticSearch these days and the event didn't disappoint, with some fascinating talks. Hugo Pickford-Wardle from Continue reading
Today Elasticsearch (the company, not the software) announced their first commercial, closed-source product, a monitoring plugin for Elasticsearch (the software, not the company - yes I know this is confusing, one might suspect...Continue reading
It's always fun to make predictions about the future, especially as one can be pretty sure to be proved wrong in interesting ways. At the start of 2014 we at Flax are looking forward to another year of building open source search and we already have some great client projects in progress that we'll shortly be able to talk about, but what else might be happening this year? Here's some points to note:
I've been lucky enough to attend two talks on Hadoop in the last few weeks which has made me take a closer look at this technology. In case you didn't know, Hadoop is an Apache top level open source project comprising a framework for distributed computing and storage, originally created by Doug Cutting (also the creator of Apache Lucene) while at Yahoo! in 2005. Distributed computing is carried out using Continue reading
I visited the London Elasticsearch User Groups' meetup last night for the first time, in the rather splendid HQ of Skills Matter just down from Old Street - the venue had a great buzz. The first speaker was Chris Simpson from Continue reading
As usual there's several interesting events on the horizon this autumn: first up is an London Elasticsearch User Group Meetup on Monday September 9th, which will probably be shortly followed by a Cambridge Search Meetup once I have confirmed a venue - we're hoping to include a talk on Solr & Continue reading
Here's a quick roundup of search-related events coming soon: Next week Lucene/Solr Revolution is to be held in San Diego, with a couple of days of training on April 29th & 30th and the main event on the 1st and 2nd May. This is probably the biggest event dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr and features a huge array of pr...Continue reading
I spent last night at a networking event organised by the Business Leaders Network on the subject of Open Source Business Models - this isn't the usual sort of event I attend, being held in a very posh law firm's offices overlooking the Thames and with some fellow attendees from venture capital firms and investment banks. Although the panel included speakers from Continue reading
The most well known open source search engine, Apache Lucene/Solr, has a rival in Elasticsearch, also based on Apache Lucene. Or maybe it doesn't. I'm not convinced that there's an actual battle going on here, above and beyond the fact that the commercial companies formed to support each technology (Lucidworks and Elasticsearch [...Continue reading
There's an old saying that to find out what's really going on, you have to "follow the money". In the search industry two recent events have pointed the way: firstly, Attivio raised $34 million in new funding. Attivio produce a solution based on their own Active Intelligence Engine (yes, it's still just a search e...Continue reading
