Tuned Grails Database Pool for optimal performance
Tuned Tomcat Thread Pool for optimal performance
Fixed a bug with Tomcat that was causing hanged threads while being crawled by search engine bots and sometimes for normal users. Explicitly calling request.session now to instantiate session under all circumstances (even 404s).
Excluded all Ajax calls in ROBOTS.TXT. Everything except the home page and static pages should be ignored by all ethical search bots.
Added an AdvertiseService that will tweet the trend search links automatically on a configurable basis. Starting out with 1 trend every 15 minutes so that a) the spam is not too annoying (a trend should only repeat every 150 minutes) and b) I do not get slammed concurrently by multiple search engines and other apps that are following the trends. This should space out the hits to a managable level.
Added the ability to turn on or off the AdvertiseService at runtime.
