I did a presentation on Phonetic Matching with Apache Solr some time ago. The slide deck is now available at Slideshare. The presentation introduces the challenges of phonetic matching using Soundex and its variations. We'll learn about the limitations of Soundex algorithms before moving on to the Beider-Morse algorithm. The slide decks shows how to integrate Beider-Morse into your Solr setup and discusses its benefits as part of an evaluation performed on a large set of real-world data.

Version 3.3.0 of Kafka for JUnit has been released. It increases all Kafka dependencies to 3.3.1 and features a couple of small improvements and bugfixes that were introduced into the codebase as part of the Hacktoberfest 2022. A big shoutout to all the lovely people that contributed to the project!

Version 3.2.2 of Kafka for JUnit has been released. Please migrate to this patch version of Kafka for JUnit if you experience any issues with embedded Kafka Connect deployments with any of the former releases of the 3.2.x line.