The Social Platform, as well as the other MSDN & TechNet apps, is hosted by the Microsoft.com Operations team, with servers in the same data centers that host Live, MSNBC, etc. I've been fascinated to learn how much application performance varies...

When people learn that I work on MSDN and TechNet, one of the first things I hear is that our Search solution is really terrible. The best way to find something on our sites, they say, is to use Google. A year ago I would have agreed, but now I...