Storytlr Blog

Today we tried to push a new release live, our goal was to introduce a new caching layer and set of SQL optimizations on which we have worked for the past weeks. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.

A few minutes after being live again, we started to see strange effects on the database, missing records, disapearing stories, and other weird artifacts. It soon became obvious that we had missed something in the cache layer and it was not possible to fix this quickly on the live server. We therefore decided to roll back to the pre-release status.

So, the bad news is that we have to go back to our garage and fix the caching bit, it will take us some time, which means we won't work on new features for a while. We also need to spend time investigating a new hosting solution to avoid the downtimes such as last week.

As you know, we are just two guys in a garage doing this for fun, so we appreciate your patience while we learn, and improve our service. We are commited to sustain our growth, and will solve both the speed and the availability issues in the coming weeks !

Thanks all for your support,

-Laurent & Alard