Importer functional again // next code update Monday

[mark]

After the latest Slicehost failure (a jobserver went down), one of the tasks that runs imports didn't get restarted. Entry/comment imports have been stuck in the queue since that point (roughly 48 hours).

We're going to fix this so it doesn't happen again by setting our alerts so they fire when something is in the queue for more than 60 minutes. Right now, the warnings fire when the queue goes above 100 items: which, in this case, it hadn't. But they were getting pretty stale, which is a bad thing.

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We will be doing a code push tomorrow. The scheduled time is slightly later than we're used to, to give me time to get home from the day job and make sure things are in order:

Monday, August 17th, 2009 @ 10PM (2200) PDT
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 @ 5AM (0500) UTC

This will be a rather large push - lots of changes - so please expect the site to be bumpy while we get the code updated and everything restarted. As always, I will update Twitter and this journal when we get closer to the time.

Comments

[afuna]

Oh yay! *buckles on seatbelt, readies helmet, holds on*

[mstevens]

Slicehost seems to be causing a lot of problems.

[denise]

We're one of their larger customers, so they put us in their new datacenter, which had the most up-to-date equipment and the capacity to handle our demands. Unfortunately, new datacenter means lots of burn-in problems....

Stay tuned though, we have news on that front. :)

[sofiaviolet]

Oooh, that sounds good.

[phoenix]

Thanks for the update!

[cesy]

I am very excited about this push.

Also, thank you for putting the different timezones on the post.

[yvi]

Next thing you know, mark is using metric ;)

[turlough]

Good luck! I'm looking forward to this push.