We have just experienced one hour of downtime. This was, sadly, unavoidable. Our primary database server reached melting point. Queries were taking a couple of seconds to run.. and that’s fine at low loads, but when millions of requests are being made, it causes some big problems. We want queries to be running in a [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Upgrades and updates
Better limits on free accounts. Free accounts now support mixing of up to five feeds at a time (previously three), and outputting of up to 20 items (previously 15).
Faster crawling of feeds. Today we’ve been working hammer and tongs to resolve one of our largest problems, and we’ve done it. We reached a point where [...]
Moving to nightly builds
We’ve begun to get a solid grasp on some of our old infrastructure issues and have been making lots of improvements to our “bottom end” over the past month. Now we want to begin focusing on the true application, the one that you see when you log in, once again. To do this we’re making [...]
Listing your latest played songs on your Web site
Audioscrobbler/last.fm provides a useful service which tracks which songs you listen to on your PC. It collects this information and uses it to generate statistics about your musical interests. They provide an RSS feed so that you can get a regularly updated record of what you’re listening to, and FeedDigest means you can get this [...]
Two bug fixes
Nothing exciting this week, but we’ve fixed two bugs which were causing some users a lot of inconvenience:
Some ISPs were rejecting our queries for feeds as our requests were slightly malformed. 99.9% of feeds have worked perfectly, but some ISPs have very picky conditions set up to prevent security problems, and such. The FeedDigest feed [...]
