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...

As part of a system refactoring process, we replaced a legacy search system with Elasticsearch. Being a core component of our system it literally took us more than half a year to move to the new system and make all the features work again, and it required us being absolutely sure of Elasticsearch's ...

In RavenDB, indexes play a crucial part in answering queries. Without them, it is impossible to find data on anything other than the document ID, and therefore RavenDB becomes just a bloated key/value store. Indexes are the piece of the puzzle that allows rich queries for data to be satisfied effic...

Last week I spoke at Oredev, an awesome conference in cold Sweden. It was fun meeting all those great people, and the atmosphere was really great.

My first talk was an introductory level one on Elasticsearch - what it is, how it can be used and what it can do. I really like this shiny piece of techn...

In my last post in the series I gave an introduction to search engines. I showed the concept of an Inverted Index and how it helps with performing searches on large amounts of texts quickly and efficiently. In this post I'll be discussing the issue of scaling out a search engine.

We chose Apache Luc...

A few weeks ago I gave a talk in DevDay 2013 in Krakow, Poland, in what could be described as a totally awesome conference. I wish it lasted more than one day... Way to go Raf, Michael and team!

My talk was a quick introduction to full-text search with Lucene and ElasticSearch. Other than focusing o...

Just a quick note to let everyone know HebMorph is now available from Maven Central. This should help many projects already using HebMorph to keep up to date with recent versions. Obviously, this only applies to the Java version. The .NET version is a little bit behind now.

In the last couple of mon...

I've been giving talks and consulting on search technologies for a while now, and I'm now happy to announce I'll be delivering a 2-day course on search technologies in London starting this December. The course will be hosted by the great SkillsMatter people in central London.

From the course descrip...

A couple of months ago I was about to start blogging about the work we did in Buzzilla the past couple of months. A few days after posting about the planned series, things got hectic and I had to let that go for a while. Now that things are a bit calmer I can finally attend to writing the series.

So...

By the end of the year I'll be giving several talks around search and also on the work we do at Buzzilla. Following is a quick list for those interested.

Catch me in either of these events to talk about anything technology related (search technologies and NoSQL especially). I'll be giving away free ...