Overview

Thought I would quickly write down some of the work that is in progress on the Drupal 6 upgrade of the nutch module. Over the past month I have been redeveloping the Drupal 6 version of the Nutch module. In past implementations the Nutch module has used the open search client module to display its crawl results while this was a perfectly reasonable solution I felt that to continue down this line was not right for a number of reasons.

Caching in Drupal has leaped forward in the last few years with the maturity of various advanced caching strategies.

The drink of choice for the Axis12 team has been Varnish as it is a great reverse proxy that is highly configurable with a great community driving inovation.
Currently there are three ways to integrate varnish:

How to build a Jobs Aggregation Search Engine with Nutch, Apache Solr and Views 3 in about an hour

Update:

Axis12's session made the cut and we're talking at 11am Wednesday 21st April 2010. Hopefully see you there.

Speaking at DrupalCon

I just submitted my Drupalcon San Franciso 2010 session now I have to wait to see if it's worthy of a talk - fingers crossed.
Here are the details (just in case you would like to vote for it)