NEWS & PRESS
Lily 1.2 is out!
April 19, 2012 We’re very happy to announce the release of Lily 1.2. It contains a number of improvements and exciting new features, both on the open source and the enterprise side of things. Lily Core 1.2 First of all, Lily has been upgraded and verified to be CDH3u3 compatible. We’re also closely tracking CD... Read more
We've moved!
March 12, 2012 With the growing success of Lily, our work space were getting a bit tight so we've moved to a new office location this week, with room for growth. Dok Noord is a city renovation project that combines living, working and entertainment smack in the middle of the old Ghent docklands. The site has a... Read more
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Sean Owen and Recommendations at Scale
April 24, 2012 We recently hosted a BigData.be meetup on Recommendations at Scale using Mahout. We invited Sean Owen - the original contributor of the recommender algorithms in Apache Mahout to introduce our audience to the concepts (and difficulties) of machine learning at scale, more specifically collaborati... Read more
A First Exploration Of SolrCloud
February 10, 2012 SolrCloud has recently been in the news and was merged into Solr trunk, so it was high time to have a fresh look at it. The SolrCloud wiki page gives various examples but left a few things unclear for me. The examples only show Solr instances which host one core/shard, and it doesn’t go deep on ... Read more