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In the information retrieval space I am aware of software such as the following: lucene, solr, elasticsearch, sphinx, manticore, etc. As far as I am aware these are based on inverted indices with a bunch of stuff like…

How do startups get their sales transactions into their accounting software (Quickbooks, cloud based software, or whatever is used)? I assume with your typical web app credit card processing is done with Stripe,…

What current attempts are there to replace email with something secure rather than encryption slapped on after the fact like with email? Desirable properties would be like, for example, Google Wave had a federated model…

What infrastructure do news aggregators typically use to do the crawling, parsing, indexing, extracting, storing/format in database, etc.? Are there open source news aggregators so that I can learn how those problems…

Heroku does not support WebSockets. Which Rails hosting platforms support WebSockets. (Also, if any, which of them give a free mini instance like Heroku does?)