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Enterprise Search Europe in London – Open source focus

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Enterprise Search Europe is the largest european event dedicated to Enterprise Search. Looking at this year’s agenda, I have the feeling a particular highlight will be given to open source. As in the recent years, several case studies are dedicated to open source, but in addition, the keynote will be focused on it. Charlie Hull, CEO and cofounder of Flax, expert in open source enterprise search, will be sharing his thoughts on the future of search and the link betweeb search and big data. Other open source tracks include a migration from Exalead to Apache Solr (the talk will be given by France Labs, yeeepieeeee), and a round table on open source implementation. You can find more details on the ESEU 2015  programme page.

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Datafari on Docker

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NOTE: This is the English version. For the French version, please scroll down.

UPDATE 08/08/16 : update of the post for Datafari v3

UPDATE 01/04/16 : beware that there is a bug with Docker toolbox 1.9.1 for the use of Cassandra (which is a component of Datafari). Update your Docker to 1.10+
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/18180

This time, we’ll talk about the release of Datafari on Docker.

If you don’t know it yet, Docker is an emulation mechanism that works at a low level of the Linux kernel, hence making it faster than widespread technologies of virtualisation such as VMWare. As its name suggests, you can “dock” applications in an isolated manner, and it will work as a standalone system on your OS.

Although we recommend installing Datafari alone on systems when used in a productive environment, using Datafari on Docker allows you to quickly install Datafari without impacting the configuration and packages in place in your system. Just download the docker image, and the remainder is being taken care of by Docker.

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