Practical insights on search architecture, relevance, and performance from real-world implementations.
How many times have we heard that yelled in our general direction? Search engines, and their teams, are only as good as the data they are given. This is true for all search engines, for all time, regardless of any machine learning algorithms or other bells and whistles they may contain.
We were recently engaged to come up with a simple way to generate Pentaho reports on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Our client had already created the reports with Pentaho, but preferred not to deploy a full Pentaho BI Server on an EC2 instance. As it happens, this was an excellent opportunity to employ a Lambda function.
Solr has multiple ways of dealing with parent-child relationships, and each have their own features and drawbacks. Here are some of the tips and tricks to consider if you are looking to make a move from Block-Join to a full denormalized solution.
FindTuner’s extensive machine learning and human-touch features enable online retailers to easily meet business objectives while working seamlessly with SAP Commerce and leveraging the search service based on Solr.
Congratulations to the Eclipse Foundation BIRT project team on reviving the project and for its continued development. We’re excited to contribute to BIRT’s progress as the leading open source reporting and data visualization project.
Innovent created an open source birt-spring-boot-starter project that makes it easy for any Spring Boot or Spring Cloud application to quickly add BIRT reporting to their application.
Recently, a client engaged us to implement More Like This (MLT) search with their Solr platform to make it more efficient for their customers to locate music. The music they find would be used with movies, television shows, commercials and similar productions.
The online retail space for grocery is an amazing landscape of new and exciting opportunities. With more retailers embracing direct-to-home, as well as click-and-collect features to supply a hungry populace there are interesting challenges that abound. Being able to provide a shopper an excellent experience is not simply a matter of having a well-designed site that is easy to use.
