KMW Technology @kmw_technology
KMW Technology is an open source Search professional services firm specializing in Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. kmwllc.com Joined March 2020-
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Thinking about adopting MCP for your AI project? Get practical insights on when its useful in the latest from the KMW blog. kmwllc.com/index.php/2025…
Big search news of the day: Elasticsearch is changing their license. elastic.co/blog/elasticse…
Can you use LLMs to answer technical questions about #Solr and #OpenSearch? We built a RAG system to see how well it worked and wrote about what we learned along the way. kmwllc.com/index.php/2024…
Ever struggle with handling aggregations on multi-valued fields with duplicate values? We open-sourced an #OpenSearch plugin to handle this use case. Check out the blog post and repo for more! kmwllc.com/index.php/2024…
Happy to share that the New England Search Technology meetup is happening again in #Boston. If you like #search and are in the area on Nov 14th and want to learn about Real-Time RAG and LTR come check it out: meetup.com/new-england-se…
#Lucene 9.6.0 is released! Safer memory mapped IO for JDK 19+, faster multi-term queries, aKNN optimizations, more concurrency while indexing, and more! Search away! lucene.apache.org/core/corenews.…
Check out the recording of our March 30th webinar with special guests from @kmw_technology that focused on new features in the 1.10 release of Swirl Metasearch. #search #searchengine #enterprisesearch #opensourcesoftware hubs.ly/Q01K_RTL0
Curious about getting started with Vector Search? In the latest from the KMW blog we walk through setting up a semantic search application on #OpenSearch and what components are needed to get it working. Stay tuned, lots more coming on this topic kmwllc.com/index.php/2023…
Solr logs are a gold mine of information but they can be difficult to manage. Our preferred approach: ELK latest from KMW the blog: kmwllc.com/index.php/2022… #Solr #elasticsearch #search
Solr's query elevation component is getting better in #Solr 9.2! We've introduced a way to exclude filters to improve what gets elevated. Read more about it on the KMW blog: kmwllc.com/index.php/2022…
Latest blog on the KMW Search Audit offering. This is how we fix search problems and show companies how to make search better. #Solr #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch kmwllc.com/index.php/2022…
With the recent release of Solr 9, its a good time to revisit @kwatters76 talk at #bbuzz on the new payload inequalities feature! Very useful for storing ML classifications on Solr documents. youtube.com/watch?v=IrMcas… #ApacheSolr
The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.0.0! Solr 9.0.0 is available for immediate download at: solr.apache.org/downloads.html Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features, changes and bugfixes: solr.apache.org/9_0_0/changes/… (1/4)
We are hiring! If you know any Project Managers interested in working with a tight-knit, dynamic team on interesting Search projects pls pass this along. #Solr #Elasticsearch #Jobs kmwllc.com/index.php/jobs…
#Apache #Lucene 8.10 is out! Feature highlights: Telugu analyzer, numeric range facet counting support for multi-valued fields, other features, tons of performance improvements, and bug fixes lucene.apache.org/core/corenews.… #OpenSource
Kevin Watters will be exploring the new payload inequality feature in Solr 9 and its use with Machine Learning models at today's #bbuzz talk. Come check it out! Spoiler: there's a great image search demo in it too 2021.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/docume…
Apache Solr 8.8.2 has been released on the 12th of April 2021. It contains a critical security fix for a vulnerability with the Replication handler! Read more: solr.apache.org/docs/8_8_2/cha…
Payloads are a powerful though seldom utilized feature in the Lucene-Solr ecosystem. At #bbuzz this year Kevin Watters from @kmw_technology reviews the existing payload support in Lucene and introduces the new features in Lucene and Solr 9. Details here: 2021.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/docume…
New case study: kmwllc.com/index.php/fore… We got to solve some tricky #Solr scaling and relevancy issues that help fight crime!
While COVID-19 has been a global tragedy this past year+ the current events in India are truly heartbreaking. To all our friends, colleagues, collaborators and customers in India we wish you peace and strength during this difficult time. covid.giveindia.org

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