The World Cup has been a blessing and a curse. We’re getting a ton of traffic, but that has forced us to deal with some stability issues. Accordingly, our latest release had an important optimization. Box scores are now being written out directly to HTML, skipping an intermediate translation step. This will speed up our site as well as protect us from future switches between data providers. We also further partitioned our application to make it more scalable. This allowed us to add new hardware to better handle the load.
As we’ve already mentioned before on the blog and in this post, the World Cup is a Real Big Deal right now. To make for an even better FanFeedr experience, we added a slew of new hash tags to our Twitter queries to ensure you are getting relevant, real-time content. We also added new World Cup Challenge game. Check it out here.
Less visibly, we laid the foundation to cut over to the new authentication schemes Facebook and Twitter are rolling out. And as usual, a ton of bugs were fixed.