Zombies in the Matrix
A little unplanned maintenance to take care of this evening. We should be back online in just a few minutes.
Wow, you guys blip a LOT. We tracked the problem back to a corrupt table in the master database that stores all the blips that people post. Don’t worry, they’re safe, but due to the total number of blips it takes a while to get things back in order.
We’re already planning some changes that will keep the site up in case of failures like these, but as luck would have it we got hit with the ghost in the machine just a few days before we had planned to move over to the new setup.
If anyone is interested in the more nerdy side of running things, I plan to write a series of posts about the kind of hurdles and pitfalls you might run into when you’re building an internet company. There seems to be a common path from initial release through to scale that you don’t find out about until you’re dealing with it.
-ian
14 Comments
reera on August 5th, 2009
Hi, Ian,
Thanks for the update. I work in IT and am intrigued by this stuff. Looking forward to your blogs!
Angela
DTM on August 5th, 2009
:’(
MadMan459 on August 5th, 2009
Thanks for the updates… here’s hoping ghosts don’t run in packs.
Sashayman on August 5th, 2009
A fairly new user I am. Also very impressed with your concept here; and your brand–”blip it” will grow. Thanks for the good work, Ian.
bradysbeau on August 5th, 2009
you have the best social networking dite for all us music junkies uhh yeah we dig it, Thanks for giving us a place to be…
bradysbeau on August 5th, 2009
again cant type for shite be so glad when we are back on withdrawel man
bradysbeau on August 5th, 2009
ur forcing me to go to last fm which while cool has no friends 
toreo on August 5th, 2009
i was wondering what was up with the site, this is sad though. i’m lost without my blip!
bradysbeau on August 5th, 2009
ditto whats a few mins??????
Ian White on August 5th, 2009
Sorry for the long delay, blip is go. I’ll be spending some time reworking the data layer to make this kinda thing much less time consuming.
Time to kill some zombies.
Zarabeth on August 13th, 2009
I just wanted to make you notice that it’s almost impossible for people outside the US blipping: either you find broken links, either you find _some_ stuff on youtube. And for an “inidie” blipper this is the end. 30 secs of Imeem samples are not enough. Are non-American blippers some of the zombies you killed with your last upgrade?
ooooooo on October 10th, 2009
Blip.fm
bitchbitch on April 28th, 2010
hey blip is just amazing.
rxrx1776 on August 5th, 2009
; _ ;