Storytlr Blog

Hi storytellers !

As you may have noticed, we've suffered from performance and reliability issues in the last weeks. This is normal, we are young and growing fast. When we wrote our first line of code, it was to support our personal pages; today we also do it for a few thousands friends :-)

So, we've been working hard over the last weeks to refactor our code base, improve our pollers for stability, and add two level of caching. One at the database level, one at the page component level. We may add a third one at the page level with a reverse proxy when required. We've also spent some time optimizing our sql requests. You may not feel a difference on an individual page load (generated in less than a second anyway), but we hope to feel the difference under heavy load !

In addition to this major upgrade of our backend, we've also moved to a new server host. We've picked up http://slicehost.com,  a Rackspace company. They provide us with a highly flexible solution, being able to upgrade a slice in a few minutes ! A perfect solution to manage resources and costs. In addition to that, I must say that I was really impressed by their documentation, tutorials and the management console.

No new features in this release, but still a few bug fix and slight UI improvements. We'll resume our work on features and improvements in the coming days.

As always, we need your help ! If you experience a strange behavior, please notify us at support@storytlr.com ! Even if seems to be an obvious bug, that may not be so straightforward and we may not be aware of it !

Thank you all for your help !

Cheers,

-Laurent & Alard