enterprise drupal performance, caching & hosting

Achieve Internet specializes in Drupal and Solr integration and customization to ensure that website content searching is fast and thorough. Solr is a popular search platform, due to its speed and features.
 
Here are five noteworthy public sites that use Solr to handle search:

1. WhiteHouse.gov – The Obama administration's keystone web site is Drupal and Solr!
2. Netflix – Solr powers basic movie searching on this extremely busy site.
3. Internet Archive – Search this vast repository of music, documents and video using Solr.
4. StubHub.com – This ticket reseller uses Solr to help visitors search for concerts and sporting events.
5. The Smithsonian Institution – Search the Smithsonian’s collection of over 4 million items.

 
See a longer list here and contact us today to power your Drupal website searching with Solr.
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Mun2, a part of Telemundo cable, is a channel created for America’s Latino youth. The corresponding Drupal website serves the same demographic (American Latinos ages 13-18) and provides information on the tv lineup as well as news and related interactive content.

The SEC is still investigating what caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall nearly one thousand points in 30 minutes on May 6. Was it a fat finger, a conspiracy, a coincidence? What is known is that investors flocked to financial web sites in record numbers. A few of those sites went down, but CNBC.com handled all comers, partly due to the work of Achieve Internet partner aiCache. On May 6:

In mid-March, the Secretary of the Department of Education (DOE) announced the findings of a study on computing in education. The study's data was to be published on the web in concert with the announcement, in order to take advantage of the news cycle.

An All New Drupal.org
Drupal’s web site is the hub of the Drupal community. Developers, business owners, CTOs, and curiosity seekers visit the site for core software downloads, add-on modules, support forums, documentation, news, and more. Drupal.org bustles with activity, and since it’s the face Drupal presents to the world, speed, capacity, cutting-edge look-and-feel, and impressive functionality are all important.

Bella Pictures is in the business of making people’s dreams come true. The San Francisco-based company has transformed the wedding photography industry through its innovative direct-to-consumer, “white label” and traditional retail Web sites. But that wasn’t always the case.

While Bella was founded by a team of professionals with backgrounds in photojournalism, e-commerce and marketing, its Web site was originally intended to generate leads for a national network of photographers, not to sell. “The main marketing site was hand-crafted php,” recalls Steve Morgan, Bella’s chief technology officer. “We’d outsourced with other partners and used a number of different applications to develop it. As a result, it was all over the map.”

Before tackling its main Web site revise, Bella decided to launch Studio Blue – a new, direct-to-consumer site that offers wedding photography for under $1,000 – in June 2009. With the desire to explore ecommerce, but lacking an open-source content management system to do it, Bella turned to Achieve Internet to create a dynamic Drupal-based site.

We’ve been working for a while with Bella Pictures to develop a new wedding photography Drupal site, and it went live Tuesday 3/30. Visit at www.bellapictures.com. The site allows couples to select, schedule, and pay for wedding photographers online, greatly reducing one of the major hassles of wedding planning. And with a network of certified photographers throughout the US, Bella is able to sell high quality, local services via the web while also centralizing and automating administrative tasks such as billing and scheduling. Achieve Internet’s work on the site was focused mainly on architecture design, integration services, and custom Drupal development.

Given the viral nature of the web, small-scale visitor-swarms can quickly become enormous and overwhelming. It's kind of like the the videos you see during Shark Week on Discovery Channel – a little Facebook and Twitter chum in the water and presto: feeding frenzy! You want to be the guy in the steel cage when that happens.

This frenzy phenomenon occurs in a wide range of industries. Media sites were taxed immediately after the Haiti earthquake; sports sites recorded high traffic when Tiger Woods made a public apology; Woot.com always feels the pressure during a Woot-off (if you don't know what this is, I'm not at liberty to discuss it); public service sites are tested after heavy weather and other natural disasters.

SANDCamp was this past weekend, and I had the pleasure of being able to present. The first half of the presentation was geared at improvements that can be utilized by small sites (app/db on the same server) to improve performance and increase capacity.

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ScalingPresentation.ppt

This past week, I was chatting with my friend - and ex-boss - Chris Fuller (cfuller12) from Optaros about caching pages for authenticated users.  He'd been implementing authcache to cache pages for his latest deployment but was going to need to do some tweaking to get dynamic aspects of the page working for logged in users.  I've been busy writing proposals and keeping the Achieve-machine moving forward so the development challenge was a great rea