The slides for Eric Gaumer's Tech Talk about search, data, and nosql during the Lehigh Valley Tech meetup on April 5th.

1. Dude, where’s my data?
LVT Tech Talk

2. About Me
• Fast Search & Transfer (since bought by Microsoft)
• Search Engineer & Architect
• AOL, Comcast, Thomson/Reuters, S&P, Dow
Jones, Financial Times, Associated Press, Citi-
Group, McGraw-Hill, HP, Boston.com, Philly.com
• Chief Architect @ ESR Technologies
• Founder diji inc working on a product called Cloud9

3. Why Search?
• Information Silos (departmentalization)
• Full-Text search over RDBMS is painful
• Content tends to be unstructured
• Binary content (PDF, Word, Excel,...)
• Empowers users (keyword search vs SQL)

4. Business Intelligence
• Answer questions
• Customer service, technical support, sales
• Federation (CMS, email, wikis, bug tracker, intranet)

5. Better Web Development
• Document Oriented (Denormalization)
• Speaks HTTP (painless integration - SOA)
• GeoSpatial (location based services)
• No SQL...
SELECT * FROM books WHERE author='Smith' ORDER BY date
?q=author:'Smith'&sort=date

6. Cloud9
• Inherently distributed (homogenous)
• REST & JSON (schema-free)
• Content Management (versioning)
• Hosted & Managed service (cloud based)
• Elastic Provisioning (add/remove nodes)
• Plugins (WordPress, Drupal, etc.)
• Cost Effective (high ROI)