BuddyGopher Blog
Monday, June 13, 2005
A BuddyGopher Stats E-Mail,
Hey Nick,
I checked the query stats once again, and:
<query_count>
<day id="2005-160" count="647219"/>
<day id="2005-161" count="650676"/>
<day id="2005-162" count="715400"/>
<day id="2005-163" count="122136"/>
</query_count>
(the last record is from today, it's just 9:43
am there)
Also, the # of messages being collected:
2005-06-13 29769
2005-06-12 187654
2005-06-11 171867
2005-06-10 171402
2005-06-09 179001
Yesterday, there were nearly 14,000 messages
in one hour during the peak
time. Here is the hourly breakdown.
away | 4859907 | 2005-06-12 21:00:00.207647
| 9972
away | 4849935 | 2005-06-12 20:00:00.701177 | 12836
away | 4837099 | 2005-06-12 19:00:01.20629 | 13834
away | 4823265 | 2005-06-12 18:00:02.535994 | 13889
away | 4809376 | 2005-06-12 17:00:01.316456 | 13627
away | 4795749 | 2005-06-12 16:00:00.490273 | 12390
away | 4783359 | 2005-06-12 15:00:01.790025 | 11932
away | 4771427 | 2005-06-12 14:00:00.575841 | 11791
away | 4759636 | 2005-06-12 13:00:00.877939 | 8465
away | 4751171 | 2005-06-12 12:00:00.352284 | 10956
away | 4740215 | 2005-06-12 11:00:02.504937 | 12193
away | 4728022 | 2005-06-12 10:00:00.643144 | 10652
away | 4717370 | 2005-06-12 09:00:00.988379 | 10153
We have 99,766 live buddies in the array now.
Marek
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Other Frequently Asked Questions
user95: is there anyways to get messages of buddies who change their message, when they are still away?
We have been running a light-weight BuddyGopher away message crawler to manually check away messages of every online&&away buddy in 90 minute intervals. This is in addition to our OSCAR array that always collects your AIM buddies new away messages. Manual away message collection helps to ensure the accuracy of our status database, and it increases our live content accuracy. Hooray for standards!
We use a lot of Perl, Berkeley DB and PostgreSQL to accomplish this big data collection on our present node.
In the summertime months, one might question this extreme dedication to unique micro-content.
BuddyGopher ~ We Love Away Messages
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Mahlen works for eBay now!
EBay pays $620m for shopping site SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- Online auction site eBbay said Wednesday it agreed to buy Shopping.com, which enables consumers to compare products online and to read consumer reviews.
This is also a great excuse for an update to our Development Blog.
- Marek recently helped to add some RSS feeds to your BuddyGopher BuddyList. Look for it at the bottom of your Home page of current away messages.
Otherwise, all systems go. Thanks for keeping up with us and using our software to read your friends away messages.
