When I added multiprocessing to my code a week or so ago, it caused a lot of problems. Everything from my db dropping, threads getting stuck, and more. I finally got my code to work asynchronously with stability a couple days ago. Yesterday I found 24,137 spammers in a 24 hour period setting a new best that …
Read more »Hey all, I just launched a new project called Oncall. Its an alerting system to augment your IT monitoring solution to help make being on call easier and integrate into your phone via text and voice. This is my first open source project (which there is a lot I am learning about) and I’m pretty …
Read more »Now that i’ve opened the flood gates of tweets to my code, I started to run into an issue where my MySQL (Amazon RDS) was starting to fail under the pressure. Simply, I was making too many queries for it to handle. To remedy that, I’ve added LRU (Least Recently Used) caching algorithm to my …
Read more »The good folks over at Twitter have recently reached out and contacted me. They have been nice enough to whitelist me on their API. Whitelisting is basically when someone is granted special privileges to a service. With this new access to their API, it allows me to scale up my code and find a lot more spam …
Read more »Today I started to play with multithreading. Its something I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time, but haven’t gotten around to it. Multithreading is basically getting a single process to execute code to split off into another thread and operate independently, to run in parallel. Here is the wikipedia article if you want …
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