Posts Tagged “scalability”

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 (…)

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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 (…)

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The Limitations of Scaling with EC2

by Justin Leider on October 8, 2008

Just as with any platform you choose, EC2 has its own limitations as well. These limitations are often different and harder to overcome than what you might find while running your own hardware. Without the proper planning and development, these (…)

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Running your own hardware Vs. EC2 and RightScale

by Justin Leider on August 20, 2008

A couple weeks ago I began working with EC2 and RightScale in preparation of our big IT infrastructure change over. Ill start by giving a brief overview of our hardware infrastructure. Currently we’re running the CitySquares’ website on our own (…)

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Part 2: An Architecture Overview — Apache, MySQL, Memcached, SQLite

by Justin Leider on July 24, 2008

In my last post I mentioned the numerous technologies which were on tap for the upcoming version of CitySquares. This installment will continue to define an overview of the underlying architecture and begin to dig a little deeper into the (…)

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