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Michael McCandless's archived writing on Apache Lucene, search indexing, and software performance.

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  • Open-source collaboration, or how we finally added merge-on-refresh to Apache Lucene #OpenSource #Lucene #SoftwareDevelopment

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    Mar 19, 2021

  • Apache Lucene performance on 128-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X #Lucene #Performance #Search

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    Jan 4, 2021

  • Concurrent query execution in Apache Lucene #Lucene #Search #Performance

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    Oct 6, 2019

  • Lucene's near-real-time segment index replication #Search #Lucene #Performance

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    Sep 4, 2017

  • Lucene gets concurrent deletes and updates! #Lucene #Search #Performance

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    Jul 2, 2017

  • Apache Lucene 7.0 Is Coming Soon! #Lucene #Search #OpenSource

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    Mar 15, 2017

  • Jirasearch 2.0 dog food: using Lucene to find our Jira issues #Lucene #Search #SoftwareEngineering

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    Oct 20, 2016

  • Where are my new blog posts? #Search #Software #Performance

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    Oct 25, 2015

  • Apache Lucene™ 5.0.0 is coming! #Lucene #Search #OpenSource

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    Nov 17, 2014

  • Scoring tennis using finite-state automata #ComputerScience #Algorithms #SoftwareEngineering

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    Aug 30, 2014

  • A new proximity query for Lucene, using automatons #Lucene #Search #Performance

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    Aug 3, 2014

  • Choosing a fast unique identifier (UUID) for Lucene #Search #Performance #OpenSource

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    May 12, 2014

  • Testing Lucene's index durability after crash or power loss #Lucene #Search #Performance

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    Apr 11, 2014

  • Using Lucene's search server to search Jira issues #Lucene #Search #Jira

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    Mar 5, 2014

  • Finding long tail suggestions using Lucene's new FreeTextSuggester #Lucene #Search #Performance

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    Jan 23, 2014

  • Geospatial (distance) faceting using Lucene's dynamic range facets #Search #Indexing #Geospatial

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    Jan 8, 2014

  • Fast range faceting using segment trees and the Java ASM library #Search #Java #Performance

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    Dec 12, 2013

  • Pulling H264 video from an IP camera using Python #Python #Video #H264

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    Nov 29, 2013

  • Playing a sound (AIFF) file from Python using PySDL2 #Python #Audio #Programming

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    Nov 12, 2013

  • Lucene now has an in-memory terms dictionary, thanks to Google Summer of Code #Lucene #Search #OpenSource

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    Sep 28, 2013

  • Three exciting Lucene features in one day #Lucene #Search #SoftwareEngineering

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    Sep 16, 2013

  • SuggestStopFilter carefully removes stop words for suggesters #Search #Indexing #Software

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    Aug 14, 2013

  • A new version of the Compact Language Detector #Software #Search #Performance

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    Aug 2, 2013

  • 2X faster PhraseQuery with Lucene using C++ via JNI #Lucene #Search #Performance

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    Jun 22, 2013

  • A new Lucene suggester based on infix matches #Lucene #Search #Software

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    Jun 22, 2013