Open Source Search Server
Meet Sphinx on 4Developers conference in Poland!
Vladimir Fedorkov, Director of Professional Services speaking about Sphinx at 4Develpers conference in Warsaw, Poland on April 4th.
If you are looking for on-site consulting for the Sphinx on Poland this week – please contact us!
Peter Zaitsev speaking about Sphinx @ MySQL UC
It is that time of year again, winter is slowly (too slowly for some) releasing its grip on spring and that means one thing… of course, the annual MySQL User Conference and therefore Sphinx will be in the San Francisco Bay Area the week of April 11-15th.
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Have you been waiting for an opportunity to join the Sphinx Team? Have you felt the call of the wild or better described as the opportunity to work in a distributed environment, on cutting edge open source search? Then this is your opportunity to be an integral component to the riddle, that is Sphinx Search.
The careers page is live and we are currently accepting applications for Support Engineers, C++ Developers, Technical Writers, and Q&A/Build Engineers. We look forward to hearing from you!
As you have undoubtedly noticed we have a new website design. We finally decided it was time to drop the 1996 look and move to the modern age, albeit very slowly and only slightly modern. As with anything new there will be quirks and potential issues that could affect your familiarity or even use. So please be patient and let us know if anything gets weird or breaks by filling out our contact us form. In the subject line simply state ’Sphinx Website Feedback’ and provide us with your comments.
FYI: We plan more changes from here, like finally implementing Sphinx for searches, unified signon for all different parts of the website, and a revamp of the powered-by and services page. Again feel free to reach out to us with suggestions, applause, or issues.
Sphinx Search Conference Update & Sphinx Team in Moscow
For of those of you who have yet to notice, we are having a free Sphinx Conference Day in Moscow, Russia Sunday the 24th of October 2010. So if you are in the area take a look at the conference registration page and let us know if you are coming.
If you are already registered and itching to attend yet require further details, we posted the much anticipated update on the Venue and Conference Schedule to the conference registration page. If you did not receive an email from our conference team referencing the above link and update then please let us know ASAP because you are probably not registered for the conference.
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Over time, we added quite a bunch of matching and ranking modes to Sphinx, and will be adding more. A number of different questions that regularly pop up, ranging from “how do I force this document ranked the 1st” from “how do I draw 1 to 5 stars depending on match quality”, do in fact boil down to matching and ranking internals. So let’s cover that: just how do matching and ranking modes work, what weighting factors contribute to the final weight and how, how does one tweak stuff, etc. And, of course, the stars, our destination.
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Just wanted to give you a quick update, that we will be at OSCON in Portland Oregon, from the 19th-23rd of July. Peter Zaitsev of Percona & the MySQL Performance Blog, will be moderating a Birds of a Feather Session on Sphinx in 2010, slated for Thursday the 22nd of July at 7 PM.
If you are in the area or up for a casual meeting to discuss your use or would like to learn more about Sphinx please let us know by contacting Rich Kelm, who will be representing us at OSCON.
Doing time segments, geodistance searches, and overrides in SphinxQL
SphinxQL now lets you do everything querying-related that SphinxAPI did, in a simpler, faster, and more convenient way. For most of the features, the mapping of API calls to SphinxQL syntax is straightforwards (either via SQL syntax or using our OPTION clause). However, a few things, namely time segments, geosearches, overrides, index and weight fields, etc might now be less obvious. So let’s discuss them.
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I’ve been curious for some time just how differently various C++ compilers might perform on a real world code base, how much improvement over time can one expect, etc. Today, I finally did a benchmark on that.
The compilers used were GNU gcc 3.4.6 (pretty much the oldest you can expect these days, but still found in the wild, e.g. on that Centos 4.7 box I used for benchmarks); GNU gcc 4.5.0 (bleeding edge, built from source); and Intel icc 11.1. Hardware was 2x dual-core Xeon 3.6 Ghz, making a total of 4x cores.
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Presentation from Zagreb and upcoming workshop in Moscow
As planned I’m currently in Zagreb, Croatia and I just gave a talk on Sphinx at #dorscluc earlier today. Grab the slides here at this “Meet the Sphinx” link if you want to find out what was in those secret bullets at the bottom that the presentation machine chopped off :)
I will also be doing a workshop tomorrow again, and another workshop is scheduled in Moscow at Devconf, on May 18th. It will be in Russian. You can check out the workshop plan and register on Devconf website. I will be covering all the tasks people are, in my experience, typically facing so it should be a perfect match (aka a crash course) for people new into Sphinx.
