Category Archives: Technical

Apache Solr 4 Cookbook – A Review

Posted on January 31, 2014 by pristinecrap

I got an opportunity to review Apache Solr 4 Cookbook. Read my review below – I recently read this book and I am really impressed! This book provides good understanding of Apache Solr for both developers as well as consultants. … Continue reading →

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easyXDM made easy. Really!

Posted on December 31, 2013 by pristinecrap

Today’s world is connected. In the early 1950s, the degrees of separation was 6. Today, with all the Facebooking and Twittering it is just 3. Can you imagine? Just 3. Times have changed. Phew! With this connectedness comes the additional … Continue reading →

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Play Framework – A simple cookbook

Posted on May 25, 2013 by pristinecrap

Play Framework is creating a lot of hype but it is still way behind that generated by Bitcoin. Just saying. Anyways, let’s get to the point without beating around the bush. The documentation of Play sucks big (no pun intended … Continue reading →

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Play Framework – Good or Bad?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by pristinecrap

The latest buzz word doing the rounds is Play Framework. It is deployed at high-profile companies such as LinkedIn. Chances are that you would not have heard of Play or Akka (because I hadn’t :-)) When we started work on … Continue reading →

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Solr – Pre & Post 4.0

Posted on February 12, 2013 by pristinecrap

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, … Continue reading →

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Solr in AWS: Master Slave Replication & Mitigation Strategies

Posted on February 1, 2013 by pristinecrap

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, … Continue reading →

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Amazon CloudSearch & Apache Solr 3.6

Posted on January 13, 2013 by pristinecrap

With the advent of the “Information Age”, massive amounts of data & information is being added into our lives every second. Gone are the days of MB & GB. Today everything is in the order of TB and PB. Raw … Continue reading →

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Hive – A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hadoop

Posted on January 13, 2013 by pristinecrap

Web has been growing rapidly in size as well as scale during the last 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. Statistics shows us that every year more data is produced than all of the previous years combined. … Continue reading →

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Hive for Retail Analysis

Posted on January 13, 2013 by pristinecrap

People always look for convenience! In the early 20th century, retail industry was still in its infancy taking baby steps across Europe and North America. But the latter half of the 20thcentury saw the emergence of the hypermarket and the … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Big Data and Hadoop Ecosystem

Posted on January 13, 2013 by pristinecrap

We live in the data age! Web has been growing rapidly in size as well as scale during the last 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. Statistics show that every passing year more data gets generated than … Continue reading →

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