Creating a product is like having a child, especially when it’s three years old and occasionally still waking you up at 4:30am.

Hello, world! I'm looking for alpha testers for our new ElasticSearch add-on at @heroku. Do me a favor & RT if you want an invite to test :)

‘Writing the first 90% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% also takes 90% of the time, and the final touches also take 90% of the time…’

I just uploaded my @herokujp presentation on why full-text search is so much faster than SQL, plus indexing Japanese: http://t.co/jytPI07m

Let's eliminate Daylight Savings Time. It's only logical.  http://wh.gov/fh4k  (Next: time zones! Yes, I'm a programmer, why do you ask?)

Here's a great way to fix that dyno queue time for your Heroku app once and for all:  https://gist.github.com/nz/4965299  #hardcoremode

For anyone trying to deploy Rails 3.1 apps on Heroku Cedar, here's the official docs hot off the press: http://t.co/Rvmpxmr /via @hone02

“We could buy our own servers for that!”

“But who’s going to rack ’em, kid? You?”

“You bet I could. I’m not such a bad sysadmin myself.”

ANN: Sunspot 2.0.0 released!  https://gist.github.com/nz/5043495 

The world adds a leap second, developers everywhere lose hours.

I recently launched our Bonsai ElasticSearch Heroku addon into public beta. Take it for a spin and give me feedback! http://t.co/AEMvesan

It's true — weeks of programming really can save you from hours of building a spreadsheet.

@akitaonrails there's an article series by sematext here:  http://blog.sematext.com/2012/08/23/solr-vs-elasticsearch-part-1-overview/ …

If you're into building software products,  http://startingandsustaining.com/  by @garrettdimon is a no-brainer. There's something in there for everyone.

Interesting writeup from @foursquare Engineering on their usage of Solr and ElasticSearch: http://t.co/qne1RK0i

@herokujp if you want to play with Kuromoji on Solr 3.6.0 today, try this schema.xml: https://t.co/zPGp6FpN (coming soon to @websolr!)

Thanks James and Adam for showing off @websolr in the CloudStock keynote!

Deleting code. Because no code is faster than no code.

Really excited to be so close to launching the @bonsaisearch Heroku ElasticSearch addon. 14 months in the making + a year in public beta!

Today I am thankful for @websolr, my cofounder @kmx and all our wonderful customers.