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Doug Cutting and Lucene: Packaging Information Retrieval as a Reusable Library

Doug Cutting's Lucene packaged inverted indexing, text analysis and ranked retrieval as a reusable Java library, becoming infrastructure beneath generations of search applications.

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Hadoop and the Open-Source Translation of Google’s Data Infrastructure

Doug Cutting, Mike Cafarella, Yahoo, and the Apache community turned lessons from Google's GFS and MapReduce papers into Hadoop, an open-source distributed storage and batch-processing platform that let organizations outside Google build commodity clusters for very large data sets.

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