An interview I had with Channel9's Seth Juarez is now live on their website.

In the interview we mostly discussed Lucene.NET and a few related topics, like .NET Fringe - the OSS .NET conference (which is going to be back very soon!).

You can watch it here, and it's also embedded below.

Recently I've been writing less and less code because participating in many important meetings drained my time. So I have now decided of having a "Meetless Monday" (pun intended) and even marked it in my calendar blocking an entire day. I couldn't be happier. (well, that's a lie, but I'm g...

.NET and open-source software. It's not picking up.

I have been sitting on this for a while, and had dozens of discussions about it too. The things I'm about to say here are a result of a journey. Yes, this is criticism; but from a respecting and caring place, coming from a long time OSS contributor...

OpenStack Swift is a distributed storage product - it lets you store blobs efficiently and easily. Since many use such storage engines for storing textual data - often times system logs or other types of structured text, it makes sense to make reading this data easier.

Logstash is a well known log s...

Here are the slides for my BuildStuff talk in Lithuania - I hear the video of the talk will be available soon as well.

How to keep a real-time, low-latency and high-stakes system up and running and well-monitored? how to investigate failure cases as they happen? and how to even know something is wr...

The talk I given recently at JavaZone about the Hadoop eco-system, titled "A guided tour of the BigData technologies zoo", is now available on video.

I posted it here along with the original talk abstract. Enjoy!

A high level overview of the BigData technologies, and their current state. ...

It's now almost 6 months after we held the first .NET Fringe conference in Portland. I wanted to write something about earlier, but we were too busy with post-conference stuff and also with dealing with stuff in our personal life. Turns out now is actually the perfect time for some retrospectives, a...

After a very interesting and fruitful period of freelancing as a consultant and developer-for-hire, I recently joined Forter's engineering team. While touring the world and working on a diverse projects is fun, Forter's people and technology simply blew my mind. It's actually been a couple of months...

In June I gave the following talk at NDC Oslo.

Lucene and Elasticsearch are state of the art open-source products which power many search services around the world, including GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter and many many others. But enabling efficient searches to yield relevant results is not an easy tas...

Elasticsearch queries are great - the query DSL is very rich and keeps evolving continuously. It's hierarchical structure allows for very sophisticated queries to be written and executed, and for handy UIs to wrap it with auto-complete features, for example.

However, like with every DSL, Elasticsear...