Delay after approval
ZingDog
3 Jun 2011 16:50
Hello all. I'm brand new to pond5 and trying to figure out why there seems to be a delay after my new tracks are approved. For example, I upload a track, it is approved, I edit the info, it seems ready to go, but it does not appear officially in my portfolio (although I see it in my mini portfolio). Am I supposed to "activate" it to make it go live?
marcus
3 Jun 2011 21:55
When we started to sell photos we realized that the database couldn't possibly cope with the high load, even though we did clever caching, db connections caching and really agressive use of memcached.
A database can be parallellized a bit using complicated techniques, but a relational database's primary task is data integrity and not speed.
We decided to split the search into a dedicated search engine that is nowhere near realtime but it's bloody fast. To do the same with normal relational databases we'd need three or four servers.
It's still early days for the new search engine and we're still testing it out and tweeking it. Right now we're reindexing about once per day.
A database can be parallellized a bit using complicated techniques, but a relational database's primary task is data integrity and not speed.
We decided to split the search into a dedicated search engine that is nowhere near realtime but it's bloody fast. To do the same with normal relational databases we'd need three or four servers.
It's still early days for the new search engine and we're still testing it out and tweeking it. Right now we're reindexing about once per day.
ZingDog
4 Jun 2011 03:49
Thanks for the explanation, Marcus.