I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that assertion holds water. As Grant Ingersoll pointed out in his keynote, the basic plumbing required for Big Data: storage, distributed processing, cheap price tag, have been [...]
LuceneRevolution 2012 Recap
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Eric Pugh
on 06/01/2012
Eric Pugh's complete blog can be found at: http://www.opensourceconnections.com/author/epugh/
About Eric Pugh
Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and lately has been mulling over how we move from the read/write web to the read/write/share web.
In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software. As a speaker he has advocated the advantages of Agile practices in software development.
Eric became involved in Solr when he submitted the patch SOLR-284 for Parsing Rich Document types such as PDF and MS Office formats that became the single most popular patch as measured by votes! The patch was subsequently cleaned up and enhanced by three other individuals, demonstrating the power of the Free/Open Source Model to build great code collaboratively. SOLR-284 was eventually refactored into Solr Cell as part of Solr version 1.4.
Eric co-authored "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server", the first book on Solr.
He blogs at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/blog/.
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