Article: Working With Open Source Project Teams To Fix Software Problems

In this piece I look at how to improve performance and other issues by (gasp) actually talking to the open source projects whose software might be involved. Believe it or not, they often want to hear from you!

Working With Open Source Project Teams To Fix Software Problems

Article: New Relic Offers Lucene and Solr Performance Monitoring

In this article, I discuss company New Relic and its performance monitoring SaaS offering, including its specialized Apache Lucene/Solr dashboards:

New Relic Offers Lucene and Solr Performance Monitoring

Article: SPDY: Can Google Make the Web Faster?

In this article I discuss the protocol Google’s proposing to speed up traffic on the Web. I did the graphics for this one and I’m pretty pleased with how they came out:

SPDY: Can Google Make the Web Faster?

Article: Apache Lucene 2.9.0 Offers Performance Optimization

In this article, I look at performance optimization improvements coming to Apache Lucene 2.9.0:

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