Ted On Flex: Feed Me - Feeds.adobe.com Launches

Feed Me - Feeds.adobe.com Launches

DIGG IT! 9 Comments Published Monday, May 05, 2008 at 8:42 PM .

Thank God, the new feeds.adobe.com is up!! It was like someone had turned off the air. Special thanks to the team that put in a ton of work on getting feeds.adobe.com. I know Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers, Ben Forta, Jonathan Wall, and many others worked hard to make this happen. Also the time frame for this massive architecture change is really impressive. To go from a single server to 7 inside of 2 weeks time is really amazing.

Here is the new architecture:

1 - Load Balancer
5 - Apache + CF8 Clustered
1 - Database Server MYSQL
1 - Feed Aggregation Server (reads all RSS and populates database)

vs

1 - CF6 + MYSQL + Apache

Thanks for being patient during the downtime! 7 times as many servers are running feeds.adobe.com so hopefully downtime is a thing of the past.

Cheers,

Ted :)

9 Responses to “ Feed Me - Feeds.adobe.com Launches ”

# d4u May 5, 2008 11:46 PM

Why was it even down to begin with? For a company as large and tech-savvy as Adobe I expect a PR machine to be cranking 24/7...
# Ted Patrick May 6, 2008 7:20 AM

d4u,

Believe it or not but sometimes the best things do not get the budget or attention they deserve. To many inside Adobe the value of MXNA is an unknown. The old MXNA was being rebuilt in parallel when it failed into an unrecoverable state. Instead of fixing the broken, the team focused on bringing the new one online.

We are not perfect, we fail too! That said going from 1 to 7 servers in 2 weeks is an accomplishment.

Ted :)
# Savvas Malamas May 6, 2008 7:35 AM

Congrats to all the guys and to Adobe who appreciated the importance of the MXNA! At the beginning of the (last) down-time my NNWire had a weird feeling. I thought it was happiness because of the very small number of posts I had to read. Now I know what it really was.. It was emptiness. Welcome back MXNA (as strong as you deserve)!
# Evan Schnabel May 6, 2008 9:54 AM

Funny, the RSS feed version is title "Latest MACROMEDIA News".
# Angel Romero May 6, 2008 10:04 AM

Nice Job! Runs so much smoother! Thanks for taking the community into consideration when upgrading MXNA.
# JabbyPanda May 6, 2008 12:30 PM

The search speed for entered keywords is amazing if compared with the old version of MXNA.

Finally, I started to enjoy the search at Adobe Feeds :)

And 'Adobe Feeds' - is a cool name for the new service too, although I will miss MXNA name.
# Greg from Make Money Online May 7, 2008 1:36 AM

RSS feed is a very important feature to any blog. The new speed is amazing.
# Hassan May 7, 2008 6:10 AM

If I am not mistaken, the feeds shown today (May 07) for the categories Flex and Air are some months old :)
# ek5 May 7, 2008 3:25 PM

thanks nice site