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One metric is job postings containing the language:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+ruby%2C...

edit: fixed spelling of clojure ;)

For $50M the investors didn't buy 100% of the company. They bought something around 10% (assuming the valuation was $500M)

thanks, I updated mine with this one :)

Here's a webcache link, hopefully it works for others too:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...

Congrats on going live, looks good!

Congrats, carsabi! I know I've spent too much time screwing with craigslist' crappy search. I just wanted to search across every craigslist in the US for a certain (rare) car. I had to setup like 200 RSS feeds to accomplish it.

I remember someone pointing out your AudioGalaxy server cluster at the north austin datacenter (I think it's the one that became SunGard). I just said "wow". You still in Austin?

Does anyone know what YP is using for their fulltext search?

These are good points. Solr/Lucene tuning is an art, so much so that some search consulting companies charge tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars for these services. That's the value proposition of Searchify's hosted search - if you just want search, you shouldn't have to worry about shards, commit strategies, batching, GC, etc. You just want to add your documents, search them, and get great, fast results, without having to become a Lucene expert in the process.

If this sounds interesting, check us out at http://www.searchify.com - We offer true real-time, fast hosted search, without requiring you to learn the innards of Solr or Lucene.

There's no formal relationship, although I have met several of the IndexTank guys and they're a cool group. And Searchify is based on the IndexTank open-source project.

I'd love to have them try out Searchify's hosted search and see how fast it is. The key to fast search is RAM, which is why we run our search indexes from RAM (not cheap), and most queries are served within 100ms. If you're the author of the blog post, please contact me, chris at searchify, if you'd like to do this comparison, and I'll set you up with a test acct.

We are running the IndexTank open-source project. We link to those white papers on indextank.com - we plan to either update those white papers or remove them. thanks for pointing it out

Sorry about that, I see what you mean. Wasn't trying to mislead, I just suck at titles :)

Now I don't feel so bad about spending a month of my time to make our search results page 40ms faster at Indeed.com

I'm interested in more info on your linux TCP tuning, especially how you decided to tcp_tw_recycle and tcp_fin_timeout (and how you decided setting the former to 1 is safe)

What would be cool is another column containing the number of months after which it makes no economic sense to stay with on-demand pricing, even if you never use the instance after that point. In other words, "if you're going to use this instance for at least 4 more months, you might as well get a reserved instance".

It's nice when busting your ass pays off, good work marco

Here's another one: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=jobs

Most interesting answer, in my opinion:

"Mr. Ferdowsi: The problem that we're trying to solve is a problem that only an independent company can solve. We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details. It isn't a problem any of those larger companies is going to be as inclined to solve in the same way we are."

If Jeff Dean went to work at Yahoo for 61 days and applied at Yammer, he'd get the job.

You're correct - the current search only searches the titles. This is one of the most common complaints, and one that we would love to help reddit fix. One challenge is there are 5 to 10 times as many comments as there are threads. So a search index for that would be much larger, require more machines and RAM, and in the end it would be quite a bit more expensive for reddit to offer.

I'd love to hear your ideas for improving search. IndexTank improved reddit's search greatly when they took it over, but IndexTank is shutting down in one month. At Searchify, we would love to power reddit's search, and are willing to spend a good amount of resources to make sure the results are good.

Hopefully constructive criticism here:

I've looked around your site, and I'm still not sure what you offer. I've figured out that you offer APIs, but APIs that do what? Push messages (urban airship)? Search (indextank, searchify)? Geostuff? Video encoding (zencoder)?

I could probably dig into the example libraries and figure it out, but if people don't figure out what you offer pretty quick, many will bail.

"However once you're project starts growing, the costs can grow exponentially." [sic]

Exponentially, really? What exponent?

I found it at least as relevant as articles on how to take better naps, which get plenty of upvotes.

I would add that the media's job isn't only to entertain you, it's also to keep you worried. Read/watch the news, and ask yourself "what are they trying to make me worry about today?" You'll be surprised.

Agreed. Here's a good relevant blog post by mark maunder challenging the "cloud hype" - http://markmaunder.com/2011/10/31/clouded-vision/

I love some aspects of AWS, but I find it hard to trust them when it comes to the cloud vs. dedicated hosting discussion.

This is good news. Now if they would lower their EC2 instance pricing, especially large RAM instances!

Has anyone asked on Quora, why Quora does this?

You, sir, have a good source!