High Performance Architecture In Place

As noted here, the goal for today was to beef up the polling engine. I'm happy to say that a new, more scalable version of the poller has been readied and deployed to the FeedBlitz server. In preliminary testing the poller appears to be faster than its predecessor by at least a factor of five during sustained activity, which we're more than happy with as a starting point. Coupled with the mailer changes made yesterday, FeedBlitz ought to be set up to handle foreseeable growth over the next few months - even if other very large feeds get added in. Look for a post tomorrow with initial results from the production system.

So now it's back to the planned feature development until / unless Web 2.0 throws us another curve.