Category Archives: Scaling

Infrastructure

21April

There has been a lot of talk over the last few years about outsourcing your infrastructure to companies like Amazon’s AWS service, or Rackspace’s Cloud Servers and others. This mentality is wrong, for most people. Today we are in the middle of a massive Amazon outage that has been going on for many hours already, [...]

Going that way, really fast.

13September

by Joel Strellner

I was just reading an interesting post on Coding Horror about iterating quickly and it got me thinking about all the iterating we’re doing on Socialping. Granted we’re a small company and have been given the opportunity to make dozens of changes without having to support a previous version or transition data, there’s still a lot to [...]

Also posted in Beta v2 | 3 Comments

Scale, Scale, Scale

26May

by Joel Strellner

The scalability of Socialping hasn’t been looking too good lately. We’ve got hundreds of users in our beta and thousands of items being watched, collectively bringing in hundreds of thousands of tweets each and every day. These aren’t little terms that only get a few tweets an hour either, many of them are terms like [...]

Posted in Scaling | Tagged cassandra, redis, sacaling | 4 Comments

Socialping makes you look like you're on Twitter every second of the day, without you actually having to be and provides you with an easy to understand and actionable analytics and reporting dashboard.
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