Open Source Search Server
Sphinx @ Percona Live London & Tutorial (Maybe)
Andrew Aksyonoff the founder of Sphinx is a featured speaker at Percona Live London, Oct. 24-25th 2011. In addition to his talk on Increasing Performance of MySQL Queries with Sphinx, we are considering a tutorial or training session on Sphinx. But before we commit to a tutorial at Percona Live London, we would like to gauge the interest in attending from YOU. Read the rest of this entry »
On Saturday, Jun 18th meet Andrew Aksyonoff, Sphinx founder in Kyiv, Ukraine on an extensive 8-hour Sphinx workshop. The workshop will be given in Russian and covers Sphinx quite extensively, from the initial 1-click installation to search cluster setup and tuning.
If you are looking for Sphinx workshop in your location or private training class for your company employees please contact us
Sphinx goes NY: speaking at Percona Live 2011 and NYPHP Meetup
The Sphinx Team will be in the New York, NY aka ‘The Big Apple’ the last week of May. We are sponsoring and speaking at Percona Live on the 26th of May, as well as presenting at the New York PHP Community Meetup on the 24th of May.
When it rains, it pours… Do expect a full-blown news entry with the new features overview and other nitty gritty details a little while later (when we add more binary packages, and figure out how to mention both the book and the new release), but a new version of Sphinx, tagged 2.0.1-beta, is just out, you can grab it now. If you’re running any of the previous ones, I strongly recommend to check this one out. For the purpose of reporting bugs and getting 2.0.2-release in a month, if nothing else. Oh, and the book actually documents 2.0.1-beta too. How’s that for a combo?
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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