Posted on June 16, 2009 at 6:00 pm
This probably is the most inappropriately titled post on my blog. Maybe this should have been titled “Why I think I waste so much time on proggit and hacker news” or “PR for my new feature on tagz”. For a long time I thought that people flock to social news sites to find new links pertinent to their [...]
Posted on April 6, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I’ve been using memcached for all the caching on Tagz. Redis is a relatively new key value database which covers a superset of memcached’s functionality. One of the biggest problems I’ve had with memcached (actually it has nothing to do with memcached) is that whenever I store a large datastructure on memcached, deserializing (unpickling) it takes [...]
Posted on April 1, 2009 at 11:24 am
Tagz has come a long way since I launched it last September. Something which began as a clean room django application has been accumulating a lot of cruft. One patch at a time, its turned itself into an unmaintainable mess of a codebase. In retrospect, I feel Python and Postgres weren’t really the best choices [...]
Posted on October 2, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Finally after 2 hours or hard work, I got tagz up and running. Its currently running on my vps (the same machine which was running the staging server). Here’s the background on the issue. The main server was running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Last night, I ran a standard apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. It upgraded [...]
Posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:40 am
Due to a libc upgrade gone awry, tagz.in has been down for the past 30 minutes. I’m working on bringing it up asap. UPDATE: Its up again, on a different machine.
Posted on September 25, 2008 at 10:35 am
Just added a new feature to Tagz yesterday (Subscriptions). Subscriptions allows all registered users to subscribe to a set of tags. Internally we ‘AND’ all the tags for every subscription and ‘OR’ the results of every subscription. Additionally, we also support stemming (like we do on every other feed). I see that a couple of [...]
Posted on September 2, 2008 at 9:24 pm
We silently launched tagz on September 1st. I posted about it on proggit last afternoon. The response has been pretty positive. Had some trouble initially. I did consider launching a 2nd ec2 instance at one point of time, but then the load reduced. Its relatively fast to launch another instance, change some settings and setup round [...]
Posted on August 29, 2008 at 5:59 pm
My dear brother Thilak met with a minor accident this afternoon, and in the confusion the ensued, he’s spilt the beans on Tagz. It must’ve been painful to singlehandedly type the 228 word post (He’s got a cast on his right hand, because of the accident). The UI is kinda crude, but functional. Actually a [...]
