wraggster
October 14th, 2013, 02:12
So about that Google Reader replacement app I mentioned last time (http://0xff.akop.org/2013/07/01/google-readers-looming-shutdown/)… It’s been over three months since I wrote the last post, and I learned quite a bit about scalability and relational database performance since then.
While grr (https://github.com/melllvar/grr) did fine for a while initially, after a while it became painfully obvious why relational databases perform so poorly with quickly growing data. As the application’s storage footprint grew, application navigation started becoming more and more sluggish – switching subscriptions sometimes would take 3 to 6 seconds (in all fairness, the database is on a shared host), and after spending several weeks attempting to optimize data queries, I decided that the undertaking was probably futile.
So I decided to do something that a friend of mine recommended I do all along – write a feed reader for Google App Engine (https://developers.google.com/appengine/). Somewhat encouraged by the success of goread.io (https://www.goread.io/) and using bits from grr’s concurrent updater and client-side code, a little less than two months later, the result is Gofr (http://www.gofr.io/) - a feed reader for the cloud, written in Go.
A live version of the app is available at http://www.gofr.io/, with the source code hosted at GitHub (https://github.com/melllvar/Gofr). Since service currently costs me very little, registration is free – at least for the time being.
http://0xff.akop.org/2013/10/06/gofr-the-feed-reader-for-the-cloud/
While grr (https://github.com/melllvar/grr) did fine for a while initially, after a while it became painfully obvious why relational databases perform so poorly with quickly growing data. As the application’s storage footprint grew, application navigation started becoming more and more sluggish – switching subscriptions sometimes would take 3 to 6 seconds (in all fairness, the database is on a shared host), and after spending several weeks attempting to optimize data queries, I decided that the undertaking was probably futile.
So I decided to do something that a friend of mine recommended I do all along – write a feed reader for Google App Engine (https://developers.google.com/appengine/). Somewhat encouraged by the success of goread.io (https://www.goread.io/) and using bits from grr’s concurrent updater and client-side code, a little less than two months later, the result is Gofr (http://www.gofr.io/) - a feed reader for the cloud, written in Go.
A live version of the app is available at http://www.gofr.io/, with the source code hosted at GitHub (https://github.com/melllvar/Gofr). Since service currently costs me very little, registration is free – at least for the time being.
http://0xff.akop.org/2013/10/06/gofr-the-feed-reader-for-the-cloud/