Golang and the search of the past

This post is mostly a status of what I have been up to here at the nearly-almost-half-year mark of 2016. Introducing Product Search By the end of 2015, we had already been using Elasticsearch for a while. It was the first part of a long-term strategy of moving data away from Google App Engine. Event… Continue reading Golang and the search of the past

Frequent patterns and MapReduce

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. The first data mining algorithm that was implemented for Antecons was Frequent Pattern growth (FP-growth) which is an algorithm that finds frequent patterns in… Continue reading Frequent patterns and MapReduce