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Bringing speedups to top-k queries with many and/or high-frequency terms

Disjunctive queries (term_1 OR term_2 OR... OR term_n) are extremely commonly used, thus they are getting a lot of attention when it comes to improving query evaluation efficiency. Apache Lucene has two main optimizations for evaluating disjunctive queries: BS1 on the one hand for exhaustive evaluation, and MAXSCORE and WAND on the other hand to compute top hits.

Microsoft OneDrive: Your Ultimate Guide to Cloud Storage

Hey there, cloud wanderer! Ever found yourself juggling multiple USB drives or emailing files to yourself just to have access to them on another device? Well, Microsoft OneDrive is here to make your life a whole lot easier. This article will be your ultimate guide to understanding what OneDrive is, how to use it, and why it might just be the cloud storage solution you’ve been looking for.

How improved network performance is a key part of Web 3.0 delivery

Web 3.0 could see the emergence of more decentralized online ecosystem based on blockchain. In this blog, we examine the important role that network performance will play in the arrival of Web3 in order to reduce frustrations and shortcomings with the existing traditional public internet. In this blog we look at the role network performance will play in the delivery of web 3.0.

Custom domains now available on preview environments

You’re probably all very familiar with the URLs we currently generate automatically for your environments on Upsun by now. And while they are very useful, they’re not the most friendly-looking as, we build them using the following pattern: This approach is important because it ensures that our URLs are unique for all projects and their environments but it also makes them pretty long, overly complicated, and let’s face it—not the prettiest. But this is the case no more!

OpenTelemetry Gotchas: Phantom Spans

This guest post is written by Ian Duncan, Staff Engineer - Stability Team at Mercury. To view the original post, go to Ian's website. At work, we use OpenTelemetry extensively to trace execution of our Haskell codebase. We struggled for several months with a mysterious tracing issue in our production environment wherein unrelated web requests were being linked together in the same trace, but we could never see the root trace span.

A detailed guide on Azure architecture diagram

Azure architecture diagrams are visual representations that illustrate the structure, components, and relationships of a solution or application deployed on Microsoft Azure. These diagrams provide a clear and concise overview of the various Azure resources and services used in a specific architecture. They are helpful for design discussions, documentation, and communication among team members and stakeholders.

Observability for the Public Sector: Greater Visibility for a More Resilient Digital Future

Observability continues to prove its worth. In The State of Observability 2023, the annual research report Splunk created in partnership with the Enterprise Strategy Group, we share the characteristics that set the observability leaders (those with a mature observability practice) apart from the rest.

JFrog's cloud migration story

Since inception in 2008, JFrog has hosted its own development environments on-prem. While this approach worked well for a time, the increasing need to deploy faster, while sustaining high quality and reducing hosting costs made us realize that we needed to leverage the JFrog SaaS Production environment. So in 2022, we started an effort to migrate our RnD environments from an on-prem solution to JFrog SaaS Production.