Extensible PHP Caching Library
by Justin Leider on April 23, 2010
Everyone has probably already seen every caching class there ever was and ever will be. However, when I was searching for a class that could easily be switched from one data store to the next I couldn’t find a thing. (…)
SOLR Filtering Performance Increase
by Justin Leider on June 23, 2009
A couple months ago I wrote about the terrible performance and a work around for SOLR / Lucene search engine. I discovered that performance would drop off a cliff while using filter queries to narrow search results for search queries (…)
SOLR Performance Benchmarks – Single vs. Multi-core Index Shards
by Justin Leider on May 5, 2009
Single vs. multi-core sharded index. Which one is the right one? There is not a whole lot of information out there, especially when it comes to hard numbers and comparisons. There are a couple reasons for this. The first one (…)
100x Increase in SOLR Performance and Throughput
by Justin Leider on April 27, 2009
Is your SOLR installation running slower than you think it should? Performance, throughput and scalability not what you are expecting or hoping? Do you constantly see that others have much higher SOLR query performance and scalability than you do? All (…)
Is Amazon’s EC2 right for you?
by Justin Leider on January 26, 2009
I’ve been asked this and similar questions quite a bit lately. But before I delve into the answer to this I want to lay the foundation and ask you a question. This one question should play a large part in (…)