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Joyent’s infrastructure powers apps serving billions of mobile devices and hosting exabytes of object storage data. Product momentum: Container Name Service solved 80% of network ingress use cases faster than we could build a full LBaaS, increasing velocity to address gaps like logging, monitoring, and fabric networks (VPCs)."},{"title":"Product portfolio: database, data store, and search","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/product-portfolio-database-data-store-and-search\/","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:18:55 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/product-portfolio-database-data-store-and-search\/","description":"Search Search was the first problem I started exploring from a product perspective. I was lucky to start my career in academic libraries, which were especially notable for their poor search experiences.\nThis mock and prototypes I built (2005) led me to develop more complete search and browsing tools that won awards (2006) and kicked off a minor revolution (2007) through improved usability (2006) and meaningfully changing how people interact with libraries and archives (2009)."},{"title":"Writing samples: containers, orchestration, and distributed data stores","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/writing-samples-containers-orchestration-and-distributed-data-stores\/","pubDate":"Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:18:55 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/writing-samples-containers-orchestration-and-distributed-data-stores\/","description":" Summary of my writing on orchestration and coverage of ContainerPilot and the Autopilot Pattern Thought leadership talk on orchestration, and coverage of a version of that talk given at Interop Object storage prior art and lit review, and estimating the size of S3 ELK stack on Autopilot with code Members of my team: building auto scaling, secrets management, automated SSL certs in Nginx, and Node.js microservices I worked across the org at Joyent to transform our docs into a value generator Product management lessons learned at Joyent Just for fun: research notes for a thought leadership talk on continuous operations and summary of lessons learned from aviation endurance records"},{"title":"Lessons and metaphors from the pioneering age of aviation","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/lessons-and-metaphors-from-the-pioneering-age-of-aviation\/","pubDate":"Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:12:20 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/lessons-and-metaphors-from-the-pioneering-age-of-aviation\/","description":"The history of transportation is a history of technological advances pushing boundaries and expanding the sphere in which we live. But the relatively recent history of aviation provides a particularly interesting look at the efforts people must invest to break those boundaries. The stories of those successes and failures offer some lessons\u2014or at least comfort\u2014to those trying to push boundaries in other fields.\nThe Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903 was just 12 seconds, and the Wrights held the endurance record for five years."},{"title":"Lessons in luck, perseverance, and product management","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/lessons-in-luck-perseverance-and-product-management\/","pubDate":"Fri, 19 Jul 2019 21:15:53 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/lessons-in-luck-perseverance-and-product-management\/","description":"Today is my last day at Joyent after nearly five years. It’s been a wonderful ride with some of the best and smartest people I’ve ever worked with. We leveraged Joyent’s unique container technology to turn the company around and position it for acquisition, then scaled up as our acquirer became the largest customer we’ve ever had. This seems a good opportunity to sum up what I’ve learned about product management through it all."},{"title":"Rebuilding customer trust after an incident","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/rebuilding-customer-trust-after-an-incident\/","pubDate":"Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:46:15 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/rebuilding-customer-trust-after-an-incident\/","description":"There’s lots of good material about how to use incidents as learning and improvement opportunities, but there’s less literature about how to rebuild customer trust after an incident.\nThis subject deserves more formalized study, but in my experience so far I’ve found that customers demand answers to three key questions:\nWhat happened? How did the company\u2019s normal safeguards fail to prevent the problem before it escalated into an incident? What has the company done (or is doing) to ensure that this problem and similar problems never happen again?"},{"title":"Headshots","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/headshots\/","pubDate":"Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:44:23 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/headshots\/","description":"The following photos may be used in conjunction with my speaking events."},{"title":"Building autoscaling for Triton","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/building-autoscaling-for-triton\/","pubDate":"Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:21:02 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/building-autoscaling-for-triton\/","description":"“Autoscaling” is a bit of a misnomer. What AWS calls “Auto Scaling Groups” is perhaps better named “managed instance groups” in GCE and “VM Scale Sets” in Azure. In all three cases, the most important details are that the cloud has a definition of the application you intend to run and a number of instances it’s expected to keep running at all times.\nYes, you can tie metrics into it to change the target number of instances1, but the first detail to get right is defining what should be running."},{"title":"Using Packer and Terraform on Triton","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/using-packer-and-terraform-on-triton\/","pubDate":"Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:20:48 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/using-packer-and-terraform-on-triton\/","description":"You may remember Alexandra White from her series of videos about how to use Docker on Triton. She\u2019s back now with a series of videos about how to use Packer and Terraform:\nCreate customer images with Packer Deploy applications with Terraform Automate blue-green deploys with Terraform"},{"title":"Product managers: product educators in chief","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/product-managers-product-educators-in-chief\/","pubDate":"Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:57:27 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/product-managers-product-educators-in-chief\/","description":"Product Managers are effectively Product Educators in Chief. They must educate customers about what to expect from the product and how to use it1. They empower the sales and support teams to pitch the product to those customers, and they must ensure the engineering team understands what customers are demanding and why, so they can build a product that will delight customers2. A PM’s product specs are the first draft of documentation, their speaking is a key part of both practicing a sales pitch and listening carefully for how potential customers respond to it."},{"title":"Quoted in the NY Times","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/quoted-in-the-ny-times\/","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:59:49 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/quoted-in-the-ny-times\/","description":"My mother would be proud: I have a quote in the New York Times.\nThis keeps costs down, which is essential when running a large online operation, said Casey Bisson, who helps oversee a cloud computing service called Joyent, which is owned by Samsung. At times, the only way to build an efficient service is to build your own hardware.\n\u201cThis is about packing as much computing power as possible within a small area, within a heat budget, within a power budget,\u201d Mr."},{"title":"Building visual UI\/UX for a complex system","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/ui-ux-for-complex-systems\/","pubDate":"Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:21:02 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/ui-ux-for-complex-systems\/","description":"tl;dr: A great cloud and devops user experience starts tools and APIs optimized for gitops-first workflows. A good web console and visual user experience adds value for all users, enables visual discovery and experimentation, and opens the platform to use by those who haven’t fully adopted gitops workflows. Below is the story of how we designed that experience, and designed for scaling across multiple product and service teams.\n\u201cBuild, measure, learn\u201d was great advice, \u201calign, learn, measure, build\u201d is better Testing internationally Think systematically to reduce complexity, increase velocity, and improve user outcomes Scope management The design team By the end of 2016, ContainerPilot was getting great reception, and there was great demand for a dashboard from which people could see the state of their applications."},{"title":"Triton and Manta client tools updates","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/triton-and-manta-client-tools-updates\/","pubDate":"Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:04:18 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/triton-and-manta-client-tools-updates\/","description":"Client tools and documentation are often overlooked details necessary for customers to adopt and use a product. That’s why I’m excited about the velocity the team is achieving.\nJustin Reagor has recently rolled out a number of updates to the Terraform provider for Triton. Just has also been busy with ContainerPilot releases. Separately, Tomas Celaya has been rocking the Java Manta SDK, has just added support for Manta in Cyberduck."},{"title":"ContainerPilot coverage","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/containerpilot-coverage\/","pubDate":"Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:38:47 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/containerpilot-coverage\/","description":"Twitter searches for #ContainerPilot and #AutopilotPattern turn up a number of interesting items.\nContainerPilot at Jet.com(tweet) E-commerce innovator @Jet uses #ContainerPilot for orchestration. Watch @justenwalker explain why: https:\/\/t.co\/x3nPDvXoV1 #ContainerSummit\n— Joyent (@joyent) July 8, 2016 Running Docker application in Autopilot The Autopilot pattern moves all the orchestration responsibilities to the application itself. This approach enables the application to run independently without relying on an external orchestrator.\nIndispensable, Disposable Jenkins But what if you could have a Jenkins environment that is completely disposable, one that could be easily rebuilt at any time?"},{"title":"Simplify container orchestration and turbocharge Docker Compose","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/simplify-container-orchestration-and-turbocharge-docker-compose\/","pubDate":"Thu, 01 Jun 2017 08:48:00 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/simplify-container-orchestration-and-turbocharge-docker-compose\/","description":"I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at DockerCon 2016 and 2017. I’m back this year because Austin, of course, and to talk about simplifying application orchestration:\nGetting started with container orchestration and scheduling systems, like Kubernetes, is relatively simple, but as your deployment grows it gets complicated fast. There are ways to reduce that complexity, and even eliminate cluster management. We will share a simpler approach that leverages Docker Compose (in ways you may not know are possible) and the Autopilot Pattern for application micro-orchestration."},{"title":"Documentation is marketing","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/documentation-is-marketing\/","pubDate":"Fri, 12 May 2017 16:19:53 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/documentation-is-marketing\/","description":"One of the most important things any product team builds is the documentation others need to understand and use the product.1\nYes, “the ideal product needs no documentation,” but people look to documentation for a number of reasons. Consider: some a trying to use the product, but many others are trying to determine if the product can do something important to them before attempting to use it. People use documentation for so many reasons that even the ideal product still needs it."},{"title":"Automated operations with ContainerPilot","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/automated-operations-with-containerpilot\/","pubDate":"Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:17:48 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/automated-operations-with-containerpilot\/","description":"Jason Pincin has added automatic SSL support to Autopilot Pattern Nginx, and he\u2019s updated the Autopilot Pattern WordPress demo with it as well.\nThese demos show how you can use ContainerPilot and the Autopilot Pattern to automate application operations, making deploys and updates as easy as docker-compose up."},{"title":"Patterns for automating containers, operations, and orchestration","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/containers-operations-and-orchestration\/","pubDate":"Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:46:56 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/containers-operations-and-orchestration\/","description":"tl;dr: Docker offered great convenience to developers, but amplified long-standing operational challenges, especially around scaling, discovery, and managing persistent data. I focused the team on working closely with customers, using meetups as focus groups, and treating every conversation as a research opportunity to understand the problems people faced.\nBased on those conversations, leveraging experience from across the company\u2014including support and solutions engineers\u2014and through iterations of prototyping and production releases with customers, we identified patterns to address these challenges."},{"title":"Everything we need to know about devops we learned from sci-fi movies","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/everything-we-need-to-know-about-devops-we-learned-from-sci-fi-movies\/","pubDate":"Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:18:24 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/everything-we-need-to-know-about-devops-we-learned-from-sci-fi-movies\/","description":"I was super excited to talk at Container Camp recently about the history of devops in movies, and how it can actually apply to our efforts today.\nApplications in the movies deploy and scale with the touch of a button, with no concern for cloud infrastructure or even CPU architecture. Is that really science fiction, or have we been doing it wrong all along? What can we learn from sci-fi movies\u2014and the sources that inspired them\u2014about building applications today?"},{"title":"ContainerPilot","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/containerpilot\/","pubDate":"Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:16:47 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/containerpilot\/","description":"We just shipped ConterPilot 2.0!\nContainerPilot is the open source container micro-orchestrator makes it easier to build and run Dockerized applications by managing the lifecycle of the application inside the container.\nWe had originally named it Container Buddy, which was fun and cute, but this release fixes that naming error.\nThe motivation to build ContainerPilot comes from experiences many of us have had in managing applications and the work that needs to be done when they start up or shut down, and how to handle things when the applications misbehave."},{"title":"Container Name Service","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/container-name-service\/","pubDate":"Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:15:55 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/container-name-service\/","description":"Container Name Service (CNS) is the first Triton feature I\u2019ve had the opportunity to see through to completion since my start at Joyent in January 2015.\nCNS is intended to provide an ingress solution for applications running on Triton. It automatically directs requests for a given DNS name to instances on Triton that are tagged to serve traffic for that DNS name.\nI introduced the service yesterday in a blog post."},{"title":"Triton Elastic Docker Service","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/triton-docker-paas\/","pubDate":"Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:12:39 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/triton-docker-paas\/","description":"tl;dr: Joyent’s Triton Elastic Docker Service is effectively a serverless Docker PaaS based on unique technologies that run Docker containers securely on multi-tenant bare metal. I led the go-to-market efforts before taking on the larger product strategy and execution. The messaging pivoted from one focused on the technology and operational benefits to a narrative of developer productivity and joy. The addition of ContainerPilot and the Autopilot Pattern addressed the more significant problems customers were facing while aligning the messaging and value proposition in a way that resonated in the market and dramatically accelerated growth."},{"title":"Automating database operations in Docker","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/database-automation-in-docker\/","pubDate":"Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:14:49 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/database-automation-in-docker\/","description":"I had a great opportunity to work with the team at Couchbase as they prepared for the release of the latest version of Couchbase Server with support for running in Docker.\nOne of my passions is automating operations, especially for databases, so of course I was eager to take the challenge to fully automate database cluster management\u2014the initialization of a DB cluster, and the addition and removal of nodes from the cluster\u2014and how it can all be done via Docker."},{"title":"Presentation: lies we tell our code","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/presentation-lies-we-tell-our-code\/","pubDate":"Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:14:49 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/presentation-lies-we-tell-our-code\/","description":"At Whitepages’ Seattle Scalability Meetup:\nFrom dev to deploy, we’re constantly lying to our code. We lie about the systems, networks, storage, RAM, CPU and other resources that are critical to our application performance. Some of these lies protect applications from each other, and some even improve performance. Others, however, decrease performance and create barriers to productivity. In this session, Joyent Product Manager Casey Bisson will delve into the “dishonest” relationship we all have with our code and show why the lies we tell can both help and hurt us."},{"title":"Building reader engagement through alerts","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/gigaom-alerts\/","pubDate":"Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:50:01 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/gigaom-alerts\/","description":"Note: the websites and services described here no longer work after Gigaom ceased operations in early 2015. I’ve updated the links to point to the Internet Archive.\nGigaom operates a set of interconnected news, events, and research businesses, and though the news business is ad supported, the company’s real revenue depends on moving news consumers through the funnel to our events and research businesses. And of course, the only way that works is to provide value that news readers want, and never appear spammy."},{"title":"Building the best reading experience at Gigaom","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/building-the-best-reading-experience-at-gigaom\/","pubDate":"Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:04:07 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/building-the-best-reading-experience-at-gigaom\/","description":"Gigaom’s last major redesign in 2013 focused on performance and mobile-friendly responsive layout (also covered here). We’ve been iterating a lot of components since then. Great content and a delightful reading experience help build trust, but our related content recommendations help turn a search result into a second pageview and increase time on site needed to maximize ad revenue. The newsletter CTA helps us build a relationship that turns Gigaom into a regular destination."},{"title":"Presentation: Cloud Mafia meetup","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/presentation-cloud-mafia-meetup\/","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:02:04 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/presentation-cloud-mafia-meetup\/","description":"I’m excited to join AppFog’s Chris Tacy at tonight’s Cloud Mafia meetup to share my experience and reasons for migrating to AppFog. My slides and speaking notes are below. Yes, that’s 35 slides for a seven minute talk. It should be a blast.\nHi! My name is Casey!\nI work for GigaOM,\nReally briefly, GigaOM is a news and market research company."},{"title":"Special recognition: cited in The Journal of Practicing Anthropology","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/special-recognition-cited-in-the-journal-of-practicing-anthropology\/","pubDate":"Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:19:03 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/special-recognition-cited-in-the-journal-of-practicing-anthropology\/","description":"\u201cBeyond Brown Paper: Reflections on Web 2.0 and the Anthropological Lens,\u201d by Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen and Catherine Amidon, has just been published in The Journal of Applied Anthropology. Their paper focuses on the opportunities for participatory anthropology made possible by public, web-accessible archives. The basis of their work is the Brown Paper Collection, an archive of historical photos presented on the web using Scriblio (formerly WPopac)1.\nThis discussion examines these concerns within the context of one online experiment: Beyond Brown Paper is an interactive photo exhibition that raises a number of conceptual and methodological questions related to the practice of anthropology in the the Internet age."},{"title":"Publication: \u201cFree at Last\u201d in American Libraries magazine","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/publication-free-at-last-in-american-libraries-magazine\/","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:40:03 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/publication-free-at-last-in-american-libraries-magazine\/","description":"Libraries can’t afford to ignore the value of open source, and those who are using it agree. But among the success stories in libraries, another theme is emerging: open source software is forming the foundation of libraries of the future, where we all get to play bricklayer and architect.\nDispatches from the Field: Free at Last was published in American Libraries, Vol. 38, No. 7 (Aug., 2007).\nA scan of the article as it appeared in the August 2007 issue of American Libraries."},{"title":"Publication: Open Source Software for Libraries","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/publication-open-source-software-for-libraries\/","pubDate":"Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:04:23 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/publication-open-source-software-for-libraries\/","description":" In “Open-Source Software for Libraries,” Bisson engagingly narrates the history of open source, explains how the OSS “movement” came about, details key players in OSS development, and discusses why and how open source can work for libraries.\nOpen Source Software for Libraries is available from ALA Press.\nOpen Source Software for Libraries is available from the American Library Association Press."},{"title":"Keynote: Boston Library Consortium annual meeting","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/keynote-boston-library-consortium-annual-meeting\/","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:47 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/keynote-boston-library-consortium-annual-meeting\/","description":"I’m honored to present the keynote for the Boston Library Consortium\u2018s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library. The focus of my talk is on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability.\nMy blog post on remixability probably covers the material best, but I define it as:\nRemixability is the quality of a system or data set to be used for purposes the original designers or owners didn\u2019t predict or intend."},{"title":"Award: Library Journal Movers & Shakers","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/award-library-journal-movers-shakers\/","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:45:37 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/award-library-journal-movers-shakers\/","description":"I was honored to be named among such a distinguished group of librarians in Library Journal’s latest class of Movers & Shakers. My profile is on the web, and presented below as it appeared in the March issue of the magazine:\nThe Library Journal profile as it appeared in the magazine in March 2007."},{"title":"Named among the New Hampshire Union Leader's 40 Under Forty","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/award-40-under-forty\/","pubDate":"Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:16:27 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/award-40-under-forty\/","description":"On 29 January I was honored to be named among the New Hampshire Union Leader’s 40 Under Forty:\nThe front page of the newspaper’s special insert announcing the honorees.\nCasey Bisson has heady task of linking the generations By Paula Tracy, January 29, 2007\nPLYMOUTH – Peterborough native Casey Bisson lives between a generation of people who practically live online and another generation who thinks the Web is something made by a spider."},{"title":"Profiled in Plymouth State University's alumni magazine","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/plymouth-alumni-magazine-profile\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:48:00 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/plymouth-alumni-magazine-profile\/","description":"I was profiled in Plymouth State University’s alumni magazine. The article is online here, and copied in full below the screenshot.\nA screenshot of the article from the Plymouth Magazine website. The article was printed in the winter 2007 issue of the magazine.\nBringing Libraries into the Internet Age Casey Bisson wins the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his innovative search software\nby Christopher M."},{"title":"The day they talked about me on local TV news","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/the-day-they-talked-about-me-on-local-tv-news\/","pubDate":"Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:57:27 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/the-day-they-talked-about-me-on-local-tv-news\/","description":"New Hampshire is a small state, so I guess it was big news in 2006 that the Mellon Foundation awarded my open source project (called WPOPAC at the time) one of the foundation’s first Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration."},{"title":"Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/mellon-award-for-technology-collaboration\/","pubDate":"Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:02:28 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/mellon-award-for-technology-collaboration\/","description":"On 4 December 2006 the Mellon Foundation recognized my work on Scriblio (formerly WPopac) with one of their first Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. The press release is excerpted here:\nThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today awarded $650,000 in prizes to ten not-for-profit institutions in the first annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC), which honors not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with particular application to higher education and not-for-profit activities."},{"title":"Presentation: Displaying Faceted and Enriched Search Results","link":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/presentation-displaying-faceted-and-enriched-search-results\/","pubDate":"Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:13:23 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/caseybisson.com\/post\/presentation-displaying-faceted-and-enriched-search-results\/","description":"I was honored to be invited to speak at the NEASIS&T Buy, Hack, or Build event last week about work I’ve been doing to find new ways to represent and explore library collections online.\nMy notes about the event and links to working prototypes are in my personal blog and at LibDev, and Lichen Rancourt liveblogged the whole event. In my presentation I called these “clustered search results,” but I’m now leaning toward the term “faceted search results."}]}}