Visualising Radio, pushing, not pulling. The BBC’s new radio player uses Comet over a Flash XMLsocket connection transport, with an ActiveMQ message queue behind the scenes. I’d like to know what server they’re using to broadcast out to the XMLsocket connections.
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Your feed just started showing lots of "????" in Google Reader (last two posts).
Matthew - 13th January 2009 01:39 - #
That happens intermitently - for a day or two every few months - and I'm baffled as to why. I think it's actually a FeedBurner issue (since the problem fixes itself without my intervention) - it always happens with fancy quotes (the apostrophes in this post, the double quotes in the last one) which I serve up as UTF-8. The Atom feed I provide FeedBurner is UTF-8.
Interesting. The problem is now fixed, even retroactively.
Matthew - 13th January 2009 17:49 - #
Simon, we're using a scalable solution provided by http://www.monterosa.co.uk. Not sure what solution they're running (custom I suspect, with loads of kernel tweaking), but it's ec2'able.