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LinkedIn Acquires IndexTank
- decadentcactus 15y agoCongrats to the team, I've used the product and it was extremely simple to get up and running, and a huge upgrade over the terrible search I was using at the time, and for free (even if I did have to heavily cache things around the earlier query limits). But now I'm wondering who would be next. I see they're setting up some new providers, but I wouldn't know who to trust and if _they'd_ be around in a few months as well. Guess we'll see how it goes.
- biznickman 15y agoUmm the email sent out says LinkedIn has agreed to continue supporting the service for the next 6 months. Does that mean you guys won't after that?
- subsection1h 15y agoI have a Rails project that I previously considered moving to Heroku. At the time, Heroku's only options for full-text search were WebSolr and IndexTank. I decided to avoid WebSolr because I couldn't find many reviews of their service. I found some positive reviews of IndexTank, but I decided to avoid their service because it was proprietary and I was concerned about lock-in. Now I read that "LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months". I'm glad I avoided IndexTank. I'm currently evaluating recurring payment services such as Chargify, Recurly, Spreedly, etc. I hope I don't choose one of these services and later read that "Company X has agreed to maintain your recurring payment service for the next six months".
- willlll 15y agoPostgres has excellent full text search built in, and we've always had postgres.