This conference looks really interesting and is probably worth keeping an eye on.
Lucene/Solr Revolution 2013 The Westin San Diego April 29 - May 2, 2013
—Jason
Short article on using the Apache Blur REPL for interacting with it.
If you haven’t checked out Blur before, you definitely should. It is an open source search engine built over Lucene and Hadoop. It provides a Thrift API for queries, and it mainly uses MapReduce for ETL/ingest.
Here are some of the features listed on its website:
—Jason
Great article on Lucene’s new-ish (3.1) feature for supporting Near Real-time searches.
—Jason
Brief article about an upcoming Lucene feature. The LiveFieldValues class…
—Jason