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A developer at SEOmoz built a dating site from concept to launch in 66.5 hours.
The first month of being online Mingle2 had around 90,000 unique visitors. By July the site’s popularity exploded, seeing nearly 700,000 uniques and 1.9 million page views for that month alone. Being the founder (and a user) of the website, [...]
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EHarmony is using Tealeaf to “identify actionable Ebusiness insights by walking through exactly what customers experience, reproducing any obstacles and enabling us to quantify them and resolve them immediately.”
EHarmony is using Tealeaf CX to gather website usage insights that are ultimately leveraged across the organization. Engineering is able to immediately detect and resolve any issues [...]
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For those of you without millions of dollars and a stellar development team to build your FaceBook application, may I suggest Dolphin as a viable dating site platform option. Version 6 Beta is out now.
I’ve always said I would never run a dating site, but I never said I wouldn’t build one. So here I [...]
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If networked storage, NAS and server clusters don’t do it for you, you might want to go read about Paris.
Over at ARNet, Mark Douglas, vice-president of technology at eHarmony, talked about the company’s use of storage clusters, how he chooses storage vendors, why the company is phasing out tape backup, and about new projects planned [...]
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If that headline didn’t do it for you, it probably didn’t work for the intended audience either. Touting a user interface technology and a development platform in the title of press release is not the smartest way to go about promoting a new dating site. After all, who besides net.heads has any idea what Ajax [...]
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Eharmony’s data storage needs have grown from 1 terabyte to 100 TB in just two years.
To master its storage needs, eHarmony went with iSCSI wherever it could, fibre-channel where it needed it, using a utility storage approach with NAS gateways and high-end network switches that allow plug-in expansion. The solution is delivering throughput at around [...]
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Facebook is giving away, Thrift, a serious stable of the Facebook platform, gratis, as in free beer.
Thrift is a software framework that takes one simple programming language and performs not-so-simple code generation to create programs that communicate easily and efficiently across many programming languages.
Personally I prefer to roll my in-memory search index in PHP, but [...]
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