This series of three articles discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application’s performance.

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While Google and its ilk are virtually omniscient, the Web’s mighty search engines aren’t well suited to every site. If your site content is highly specialized or distinctly categorized, use Sphinx and PHP to create a finely tuned local search system.

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This tutorial is for developers and IT professionals that would like to use the Apache Solr enterprise search server as an enterprise-class search engine for the company intranet or other demanding search engine applications.

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Facebook Platform for Mobile allows applications to integrate with and leverage Facebook’s core mobile services.

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