David Smiley

Lucene/Solr search expert

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@jpountz @turbopuffer Wow, end of an era. Good luck to you.

[Michael McCandless @mikemccand]

#Apache #Lucene will soon have a faster and smaller terms index!

This is a complex part of Lucene, and a major hotspot for terms heavy use cases like (primary) key/value store (~34% speedup, but results are preliminary!).

Lucene's pluggable Codec API makes experimentation like this possible.

https://t.co/7pQfTZwSib

[Benjamin Trent @benwtrent]

It's wonderful to see practical & important programming work. Debugging concurrent programs is incredibly difficult, here is a bug found in Apache Lucene by the CMU Pasta Lab using their new Fray testing framework https://t.co/NpnAiWozkH

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

I am extremely impressed with @TPLINK Deco mesh routers. Most especially the UI administration and UX generally. It’s maybe perfect. My past experiences with Netgear and Linksys were pathetic by comparison.

[Sumit @_reachsumit]

Operational Advice for Dense and Sparse Retrievers: HNSW, Flat, or Inverted Indexes?

@lintool evaluates tradeoffs between HNSW and flat indexes in dense retrieval, comparing performance, efficiency, and quality across index types and retrieval models.

📝https://t.co/hrq8WJetOl

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@BrianGoetz @royvanrijn That’s a reason to exit the scene as well. At least the others haven’t fucked with the JDK and even the language itself!

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@softwaredoug @hughes_meister Oh my… he will be missed. I did get the pleasure of meeting him at an Activate conference or two.

[Kelly Sommers @kellabyte]

PruningRadixTrie - 1000x faster Radix trie for prefix search & auto-complete

https://t.co/BbZqv3e2PT

Would love to see a golang port

[Radu Gheorghe @radu0gheorghe]

New tutorial on using #Solr Operator on #k8s (with autoscaling): https://t.co/lcYm7SpxQm

You know, for weekend reads and fiddling 😅 As always, feedback is welcome!

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@ichattopadhyaya @mitskitty Nice… I hope your vacation was a memorable one.

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@gsingers @strandbookstore @drewfarris Nice! Also cool to spot someone reading/holding your book in public like a subway

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@gsingers Wow, congratulations! I can’t imagine yet what that will be like. Maybe I’m kidding myself but I don’t remember diaper changes being the worst. Perhaps just constantly having some sense of duty to look after them.

[Apache Solr @ApacheSolr]

The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.2.0.
<https://t.co/8JG1Um5jdy>
Highlights:
- Internally uses Jetty 10 instead of Jetty 9.
- Now includes an OpenTracing module, with support for OTEL tracing in OTLP format using gRPC.

[Torsten Bøgh Köster (@[email protected]) @tboeghk]

🌍 How we verified development improvements and stable response times in @ApacheSolr using the @PrometheusIO Blackbox Exporter. Super easy to set up, so many insights in seconds 🙌

https://t.co/BNkezQzEJt

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@jbaiter_ I would argue replicas don’t need an ID. It’s just a pair of shard ID and node ID. Said differently, it’s merely an instance of the shard on a node.

[Apache Solr @ApacheSolr]

The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.1.1.
<https://t.co/8JG1Um5jdy>
Highlights:
- Bug fix for pagination on MatchAllDocs
- Bug fix for replicas registration
- Bug fixes for KNN search pre-filtering and defaults

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

If you work with improving search relevancy, go to this conference!

[OpenSource Connections @o19s]

Haystack US 2023 will take place the week of 24th April in Charlottesville, VA. Find out more and submit your talk https://t.co/khHUSTz5rc #search #haystackconf

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@kversaw1 @unclebobmartin He also is sort of retired

[OpenSource Connections @o19s]

Here's a great example of how our client work sometimes leads to major improvements in #opensource search - OSC's @compuwizard123 has contributed a fix to a #Solr performance issue around cached filter queries https://t.co/slRW9hBKLT .... [1/..]

[David Smiley @DavidWSmiley]

@AAnakhe @outreachy @ApacheSolr Thanks for your contribution to Solr :-). I’m also grateful for @jeg90 and others in the community that are really helping out with new contributors.