Archive for March, 2009
Archiving news, what a wonderful thing
Hi all,
Some days ago we rolled out a new release. Apart from fixing a bunch of minor bugs, we implemented an internal improvement. One of the problems we were running into is the huge amount of posts the system is tracking (last week was something around 650.000 posts). Problem is that accessing a single table with that amount of records in it can be time expensive. The solution was simple, most of the posts that are stored are quite old (more than 3 or 4 months old) so we decided to move all those old posts to some other tables where they would be access much less. That meant that we offloaded a lot of information from the main post table, keeping the number of records there under control.
As usual, implementing this things isn’t as straight forward as we would like and we had to implement a specific logic so that if a user wanted to read more posts from a blog that had been archived we would return them to the user in a seamless way. It’s finally working and the site’s performance is considerably better, so we are quite happy.
During the next weeks we’ll be partitioning some tables so that the site goes even faster, we’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for your patient!
The Inkzee Team
New theme for our blog
We have to say this: FINALLY! Yeah, we’ve managed to get some time to deploy a new theme for our blog. It’s nothing fancy, one of the thousands of Wordpress themes but it’s much slicker than the old one. Hope you guys like it 
The Inkzee Team
Alerts are here!
Finally we managed to release alert filters to the system! It’s still a little buggy and we have already detected a couple of glitches that we are working on, but all in all it’s pretty decent. As for today you can create an alert with a bunch of keywords and get all posts within your subscriptions that match those keywords. As usual, the posts that are captured by the alert will also display related clustered posts so you can dig further if you want to.
Apart from the alerts, we’ve fixed a lot of bugs, updated our jQuery libs and integrated jQuery UI into our interface. There were some nasty bugs when importing some opml files that have been fixed as well as some problems when unsubscribing to a bunch of feeds.
As usual, feel free to contact us at support at inkzee dot com with any problems or bugs you find. Want to try the alpha? Request an invite here: http://www.inkzee.com.
Thanks a lot for your support!!
The Inkzee Team
