Hi all,

After some finally tweaks, we managed to push another release today and finished migrating all users from the old alpha architecture. We were so excited, we decided it was time to send some more invites to some more users that have been waiting for it for ages! (We really regret that, sorry guys!).

Suddenly what we can only define as a shit storm came our way. Servers were on fire, even though we didn’t send too many invites. Problem is that our system scales with the number of feeds each users has. Some of our new alpha users are really feed junkies (you know who you are! ) and really pushed the total number of feeds the system manages really fast. We are throwing some stats so you get some idea:

As you can see, the number of feeds being tracked by Inkzee internally nearly triplicated in a 20 minute span. We are storing, displaying and sorting 32,859 posts right now and growing fast.

In the process of managing such a large amount of new feeds some parts of the backend went belly up. We are investigating it now and we hope we can fix them soon. Even though some things broke, they weren’t critical parts so the system recovered from the failures pretty fast which is good news.

The moment we stabilize the system again we’ll continue sending new invites. Right now we are also focusing in adding new features. The next one in our roadmap will be the ability of creating custom filters and keyword alerts. We hope to release that some time next week.

As usual, thanks a lot for your patient and keep coming, but gently

The Inkzee Team