Bright side
Finally Docker hype reached FastCompany and here I am adding to it : ) I wish I started with Docker intro post first, but I bet there are tons of stuff like this already on the nets. Instead I’ll assume most readers will already be familiar with Docker in some way. …
I’ve been looking at different facets implementations while working on REST Search API for my ecommerce store. Some of the solutions I saw were simple to achieve (like plain faceting by terms with single selection), while others required some thinking and some extra work.
Today we will talk about Zappos facets, …
If you are running in AWS environment it might be useful to get Amazon instance_id in Nginx for different purposes (logging, headers etc).
To do that we need to compile Nginx with Perl support (–with-http_perl_module flag during compilation). After that is done we can put this snippet inside of our httpd Nginx config section:
Important: While the Perl module is performing a long-running operation, …
Sometimes it might be useful to add simple permissions layer on top of unprotected HTTP services ( especially if you would like to open those to the public! ). Recently we had to secure our Solrcloud install to be able to provide read only access to our FTS index to a partner, …
Solr in “cloud” mode (solrcloud)
One of the first steps for solrcloud cluster setup is collection configuration preparation. Usually it’s done like this:
-Dbootstrap_confdir=./solr/collection1/conf -Dcollection.configName=myconf
If you start Solr with above attributes, it will load configuration files under ./solr/collection1/conf to Zookeeper with myconf name. …
This was suppose to be 10 minutes fix..
Or so I thought. If you read my blog you probably know that for the most part I’m doing operations stuff for FastCompany. That means sometimes I deal with little tricky problems like the one I’m going to talk about today. …
First of all, I would never thought I’m going to write about JAVA GC. I’m not a JAVA guy, everything described in this post is my personal experience from the operational stand point. I hope it will be useful for some of you as well. …
You probably heard about recent security hole discovered in openssl library called Heartbleed. If not read:
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt
Anyways here is the catch – turns out Amazon can roll critical updates to all images based of Amazon AMI! …
If you use Amazon EC2 service for a while, you probably aware of the fact that any time you stop/start (reboot) your instance the underlying IP might change. We need to account for that when designing new services in EC2.
Lets see what happens to SolrCloud after IP change:
Note those grayed out IPs. …
