Today, Vimeo goes public
Vimeo spins out from IAC and begins trading on Nasdaq under the ticker VMEO.
Writing on software design, company building, and Information Retrieval.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
FOSDEM 2015
Another year at FOSDEM — Vimeo's open source talk, the dedicated Open Source Search track, and a closing keynote from a Mars One astronaut candidate.
I've Joined Vimeo
Joining the Vimeo team to work on the search platform after an amazing run at DueDil.
DueDil raises further $17 million of funding to fuel growth and expansion
DueDil's Series B: a $17m round led by Oak Investment Partners, bringing total funding to $22m and accelerating expansion to new geographies.
Elasticsearch 1.0 launched: An overview
A run-down of the headline features in Elasticsearch 1.0 — Snapshot/Restore, the cat API, the redesigned percolator, and the new Aggregations framework.
FOSDEM 2014: a retrospective
A weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM — Elasticsearch 1.0 ahead of launch, plus PostgreSQL JSON, Redis, MongoDB, and YARN talks.
Elasticsearch Marvel: Monitor and Manage your Elasticsearch cluster
Elasticsearch's new Marvel monitoring dashboard — built on Kibana and Sense — surfaces cluster health and lets you query the REST API live.
Elasticsearch Snapshot Restore Overview
A walkthrough of the new Snapshot/Restore API arriving in Elasticsearch 1.0 — incremental backups for your cluster via a simple REST endpoint.
Elasticsearch Aggregations Overview
A look at the new Aggregations framework arriving in Elasticsearch 1.0 — multi-level, nested calculations that go far beyond what Facets could do.
London Elasticsearch User Group Presentation
A talk at the London Elasticsearch meetup on how DueDil uses Elasticsearch — bulk indexing, and using Facets to add depth to search.
Elasticsearch "Yellow" cluster status explained
What yellow status actually means, and how the Cluster Health API reports primary vs replica shard allocation.
DueDil completes Series A funding and announces $5m in new investment
DueDil's $5m Series A round, led by Notion Capital and Oak Investment Partners — funding new territories and additional data sets.
Using Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2
Setting up an Elasticsearch cluster on EC2: installing the AWS cloud plugin, configuring discovery, and watching nodes find each other.
DueDil: Trust the data
DueDil's intro video — a quick look at what we're building.