February 2008

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• Sphinx, MySQL

  Sphinx is live and kicking

  02.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  As I have mentioned in my previous post, I have started using Sphinx as a search engine on my site. It was a very exciting week for my site with a record breaking number of visitors. Sphinx has handled it great. I must say that MySQL full text search have done a great job too. […]

• Solr, Sphinx, Lucene, PHP, API, MySQL

  Sphinx and Lucene search engines, first impressions

  02.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  MySQL full text search is the easiest way to provide full text functionality on your site. It is easy to implement and easy to use. You just have to specify MySQL FULLTEXT index, and after that you search the tables with appropriate SQL queries.
  However, there are some disadvantages. On a large databases full text search […]

• Amazon Web Services, Facebook, API

  Building Facebook applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  02.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently I have written about my first impressions on Facebook platform. Amazon Web Services today announced that they are teaming up with Facebook developers team to provide easy way to build instantly scalable Facebook applications on Amazon Web Services, S3 Simple Storage Service and EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud. According to Amazon, you can use their […]

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