OH MY COMMENTS
posted by Joseph Leingang
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Tell us how you really feel!
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Tell us how you really feel!
We here at ONM definitely pride ourselves at doing the "impossible." Right now the impossible is getting 10 website powered by a massive database, and using several hundred gigs of media to run on the same box. You may have noticed some weirdness with the site(s) lately -- this is because we basically ran out of memory and capacity. This definitely happened a lot sooner than expected, but we hadn't anticipated the early and often demand for things like searching schedules (arguably the heaviest task performed). Heretofore we have remained rather obsequious in our efforts to prevent any slowdowns, but we have never taken the time to inform you why they may be happening. For the rest of the week and next we will be testing more aggressive performance measures that will hopefully bring us back up to snuff.
In the coming few weeks we're going to add several additional features to blogs.azpm.org/b/.
This is going to be pretty cool because we'll finally have real time user feedback!
We'll probably start with RSS feeds so people can subscribe to blogs
There's such a tremendous demand for searching!
Which brings me to the second topic of this post: searching
Everyone wants to search everything -- and we totally get that. We're working really hard to bring searching to the schedules portion of our website; unfortunately the data behind that comes from a database whose software was last update in 1995. It's a unique challenge, but hey, we deliver the impossible. As far as I can tell, we're the only people who have an entirely in-house schedules application in the first place!
So, we've launched blogs. No time like the present to bring AZPM in to the interblagosphere. Those of you who read James' Cue Sheet will be happy to know that its archive has been imported in its entirety for your perusal. In the future more blogs will appear from various departments to keep you up to date and more connected with what goes on around here.
We hope to use this blog to keep you up to date on new features and content that AZPM.org has to offer, as well as code snippets for those of you curious to see the magic that Joey cooks up on a weekly basis.
A fireside chat with the content developers that bring you AZPM.org
