Bear's Log

Well, ok, not quite that dramatic - but for sure the final 20% is going to turn the last of my beard gray before the year ends. Lately Nathan and I have been battling subtle bugs in Tigase (which Artur and Bart have been great at fixing), subtle bugs in our code (oh yea, even there! ;) ) and the usual other 30 distractions as the team delivered the beta version of the new site. With this latest round of tweaks we are very close to calling it “shipped”:

• We turned on thenode that delivers the public timeline data (or what others call the “firehose”) and that is now sending Atom payload events to it's subscribers,
• We are seeing a more stable auto-refresh of the timelines (well, more stable after this last tweak)
• We can now dial the BOSH timeout up or down to find that sweet spot for load management
• The Tigase team delivered a great new feature: Server Monitoring which I'm hoping we can wire into our infrastructure for much more accurate stats

All in all it's been a really crazy couple of weeks - but man is this stuff fun! So I'm hoping that the XMPP community allows us a bit of boasting as we have a XMPP PubSub system running “in the wild”. I'm sure there are others out there, but so far they have been rather quiet on how things are done or they have quietly gone away. We are working on an architecture article for the Seesmic Developer's site that goes into more details on how and why. Special thanks to Jack for taking the time to review how we structured our Atom payload -- hopefully it's less messy now :)