At Trifork we’re always looking to get the best performance out of our systems. As a 10gen partner that means that we also try to squeeze the most out of our MongoDB deployments in terms of read and write throughput. Experience has shown that it matters greatly whether those deployments are performed on dedicated hardware […]
Migrating Apache Solr to Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is the innovative and advanced open source distributed search engine, based on Apache Lucene. Over the past several years, at Trifork we have been doing a lot of search implementations. Driven by the fact that every other customer wanted the ‘Google-experience’ (just a text box, type some text and get relevant results) as part […]
Enterprise search with Solr and Elasticsearch @ Hippo Meetup
At a recent Hippo meetup I gave a presentation about enterprise search. Being able to index and search your content, both in the Hippo CMS and in other sources, is of interest to many Hippo users. The presentation does not go into any Hippo specifics, but provides a brief introduction to search, Apache Lucene and […]
How to write an elasticsearch river plugin
Up until now I told you why I think elasticsearch is so cool and how you can use it combined with Spring. It’s now time to get to something a little more technical. For example, once you have a search engine running you need to index data; when it comes to indexing data you usually […]
And that was Devoxx 2012, partnering with 10gen and a lot of knowledge gaining
Last week a couple of my colleagues and I were in Antwerp visiting the Devoxx conference. In this blog post we try to give you an idea about what we did & learned: The sessions I attended a lot of sessions, if you want to know more I urge you to read on. I briefly discuss […]
What’s so cool about elasticsearch?
Whenever there’s a new product out there and you start using it, suggest it to customers or colleagues, you need to be prepared to answer this question: “Why should I use it?”. Well, the answer could be as simple as “Because it’s cool!”, which of course is the case with elasticsearch, but then at some […]
Elasticsearch beyond “Big Data” – running elasticsearch embedded
Trifork has a long track record in doing project, training and consulting around open source search technologies. Currently we are working on several interesting search projects using elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed, RESTful, search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. In contrast to for instance Apache Solr, elasticsearch is built as a […]
University of Amsterdam website goes live
Congratulations to our client the University of Amsterdam who today launched their new website. With a new look & feel and a complete update of all the existing content it’s a showcase of how educational institutions can really provide relevant information to varied target audiences. The site built by us, Orange11, with the use of Hippo CMS now makes it […]
Summer time…
For those you may have missed our newsletter last week I’d like to take this opportunity to give you a quick lowdown of what we’ve been up to. The summer months have been far from quiet and I’m pretty excited to share in this month’s edition lots of news on projects, products & upcoming events. […]
Berlin Buzzwords 2012 Recap
This is a recap of Berlin Buzzwords 2012, the 2 day conference on everything scale, search and store in the NoSQL world. Myself and Martijn van Groningen arrive in Berlin Sunday evening. Unfortunately we are too late for the infamous Barcamp, a low-key mix of lightning talks, beer and socializing, so we decide to have […]