One of the things that were extensively changed in Solr 6.0 is the Streaming Expressions and what we can do with them (hint: amazing stuff!). We already described Solr SQL

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With the release of Solr 7 the community around it produced yet another great version of this search engine. As usual, there is an extensive list of changes, bug fixes

In the world of DevOps, metric collection, log centralization and analysis Apache Kafka is the most commonly used middleware. More specifically, it is used as a fast, persistent queue between

Kubernetes is a really hot topic at the moment. All major cloud providers adopted it as a solution for deploying cloud native apps. Just a few weeks ago, AWS at

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This is a guest post from Filippo Balicchia. Filippo contributed Logagent plugins for Apache Kafka the details of which he is sharing in this post.  Filippo is a software engineer

Another Lucene/Solr Revolution happened on September 12-15, 2017 in Las Vegas. Sematext was there, exhibiting AND giving two talks! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and attended our two talks: Optimize Is (Not) Bad

Another Lucene/Solr Revolution happened on September 12-15, 2017 in Las Vegas. Sematext was there, exhibiting AND giving two talks! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and attended our two talks: Optimize Is (Not) Bad

Elasticsearch is already quite popular and its popularity just keeps growing. Looking at Google Trends chart for the last 5 years shows this nicely: There are a number of reasons