We are about to release Lucene.NET 4.8, and it's time to show what it can do, and how it can be done. During the MVP Summit I recorded a hands-on introduction video, and it's now live here.

The Demo ap...

Elasticsearch has known ups and downs with it's support of scripting languages. Two versions ago (that is, in the 1.x series) it added and removed support of various scripting languages in almost every minor release. [I have also recommended avoiding the use of them myself](http://code972.com/blog/2...

We see two main usage patterns with Elasticsearch indexes - monolith indexes and rolling indexes. Over the years Elasticsearch added features that greatly improve the experience of working in these patterns. Elasticsearch 5 introduces several new features that build on that further, and result in a ...

Elasticsearch 5.0 was released last week, as part of a wider release of the Elastic Stack which lines-up version numbers of all the stack products. Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elasticsearch - are all version 5.0 now. This release is quite a large one, and includes thousands of change items. I personall...

A talk I gave recently about our real-time system monitoring facilities at Forter is now available to watch online. The talk description and video are both below.

How to keep a real-time, low-latency and high-stakes system up and running and well-monitored? how to inves...

I have previously blogged about Lucene.NET - saying we are nearing a release, and are happy with what we have so far to call it Beta and ask all to upgrade and let us know how it goes.

Thanks to our contributors...

I am happy to announce that after a long development cycle, Lucene.NET v4.8 is finally ready to be used by your projects.

As you are probably aware, the last release of Lucene.NET (3.0.3) was about 4 years ago, in October 2012. That's a long time for anything - and especially for a project like L...

This is an updated version of my blog post from two years ago. It features both the new Azure Portal, and the new Elasticsearch 2.x series. It also incorporates some helpful additions based on my experience...

Well, to start with, I never really did TDD and probably never will. This is merely a response post to Uncle Bob's post bearing the same name from a few weeks ago.

Why no TDD for me?

Let's start with one observation that ...

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](https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Set...