We’re taking SocialAdr offline for several hours this morning to do database optimization. This will make the site run faster. Thanks for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Everything should be complete by 3 AM PDT (GMT -7).
Updates from June, 2011
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Site down for maintenance
Kane
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Downtime
Kane
We’ve been having intermittent server issues the last few days. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working with our host to resolve them. There’s no ETA yet on how soon we’ll get to the bottom of it but rest assured we’re doing our very best.
Stay tuned for an update.
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Downtime: bookmark processing engine upgrade
Kane
We’re taking SocialAdr offline (hopefully for only a few hours) in order to migrate some changes. The bookmark processing engine was in need of some upgrades which will enable us to handle more volume as well as be more efficient with how we process data.
An update will be made when the system is back online. Thanks for your patience.
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The Work Processing Queue
Ben
You may have noticed in the last few days that there is more time between when you click to share something and when the work is completed. Maybe you even got a little worried about it. So I thought I’d provide a little explanation by way of an inside peek at what happens under the hood of the Share button.
Every time a member clicks to share something, we create a ‘work order’ for that bookmark and put it into a work processing queue, which is basically just a big list of all the bookmarks we have to process. Every couple minutes we go looking for work to do, and if we find any, we pull the top few out and start kicking them out to the bookmarking sites.
Depending on how many work orders are in that queue, it could take a while for us to get around to one near the bottom of the list. But that’s ok – there’s no reason that the bookmarks need to be posted right when the button gets clicked, and it was never intended to do so. Up until recently, it usually happened pretty quickly anyway, but as the number of users on the system scales up, that near-real-time result is less and less likely to happen.
Don’t worry though, once a bookmark has gone into the work queue it will be processed, even if it’s not right away.
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Site is back up – SocialAdr 2.0 is live!
Ben
The site is coming back up right now and that means that SocialAdr 2.0 is live. I’ll be posting the full patch notes later tonight. Please let us know right away if you notice any bugs. We tested the heck out of this thing, but any time you make so many changes there’s a reasonable risk of accidentally breaking something.
