This post is the first in a series of posts in which I will look at web frameworks in the .NET and Java space (probably with more focus on .NET), both in practical terms and also to discuss the ideas behind them.

The series is more of a high-level overview of modern web-development, surveying major ...

Last night I gave a talk at SkillsMatter London on multi-lingual search with Lucene and Elasticsearch. The talk covered various challenges with indexing texts in various languages: tokenization, term normalization and stemming. I started with demonstrating the challenges on individual languages, and...

Let’s face it - not all the data we handle is easy to query. In fact, most of it is actually pretty tough to work with. This is often times because a lot of the data we process and handle is unstructured. Be it logs, archived documents, user data, or text fields in our database that we know contain ...

This week I'm working with Particular Software of NServiceBus fame. There's a shiny new platform for designing, managing and debugging distributed systems coming up and while doing some work on it I hit the following failing test. The documentStore is an EmbeddableDocumentStore which was properly in...

In this article, which got published some time ago in a developers' magazine in Norway, we are going to explore two of the lesser-known features of RavenDB, and show how they can greatly improve your application and your business.

Suggesting alternate spellings for search terms

Imagine the following...

A very common requirement with any database engine is to be able to store and query hierarchical data. This usually comes up in the context of categories for products in an e-commerce website, in a site-structure context (this page needs to be a parent of that page) or when trying to model company h...

I've had a blast 2013 - been to new cool places, met many amazing new people and learnt a ton of new stuff. Always with me was my Canon 550D, and I was able to catch quite a few nice pictures with it.

Some of the best pictures I took, of the best moments in my year 2013 are shown below. No filter, n...

2014 hasn't even started yet, and I already have a full schedule for the next couple of months. Here is a list of talks and courses I'm doing publicly, on RavenDB and search technologies (Lucene and Elasticsearch). I will update this list as new events come in.

1. December 30th, Tel-Aviv: the Inaugura...

It's been a few years since I started experimenting with Hebrew search, and during that time I was able to create HebMorph and see it get adopted in many places for various uses. I was involved in several projects - open-source and commercial - that needed Hebrew search capabilities, and learned a l...

A couple of days ago I gave notice, and as soon as I’ve finished wrapping up everything in my current position I’ll be free again and looking for new challenges and experiences.

For the time being I’m NOT looking for any permanent position. First I want to do dedicate my time to some projects - my o...