Waleed, Superfeedr is the service I was telling you about. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Julien Genestoux < [email protected]> wrote:
> Waleed, you may want to check http://superfeedr.com. We do polling if we > don't find any other way to get the feed updates in real time( pubsubhubbub, > rsscloud, sup...) > > We send you the notifications thru pubsubhubbub, so if at any point you > want to move away from us, that's easy. > > Julien > > -- > Julien Genestoux > [email protected] > +1 (415) 254-7340 > http://www.ouvre-boite.com > > Envoyé depuis mon iPhone > > > On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Waleed < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I have an app in production that pulls 250K feeds, and I'm hoping to >> offload my feed pulling to PSHB and start to get updates faster. A few >> questions for the experts here: >> >> 1. I remember hearing that Google's hub at >> <http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com>pubsubhubbub.appspot.com >> does polling every 3 hours for feeds that don't ping the hub. Is that >> accurate? >> >> 2. If the above is correct, then I'm planning to start by simply >> subscribing to all my 250K feeds on the Google hub. I'll get instant >> updates for some feeds, and 3-hour delayed updates for others, which >> is okay with me. Does anyone see a problem with this plan? >> >> > Falling back to polling isn't a required part of the PSHB spec, and while > the Google hub *can* do it, it's not great, so it's off in production. Plus > we don't want to confuse people as to what Hubbub does. So no, the Google > hub can't be your feed poller. > > >> 3. Is the Google Hub production ready? Can I expect, say, 99% >> reliability or higher? As in, expect 99% or more of new updates to be >> delivered to me? >> > > There are no guarantees, but it's run on App Engine, which is pretty > reliable. > > >> >> 4. Does it handle non-English content? >> >> > Of course. It's all either treated as just bytes, or Unicode, depending on > the codepaths. > > > >> >> Thanks, >> Waleed >> > > -- Jeff Lindsay http://webhooks.org -- Make the web more programmable http://shdh.org -- A party for hackers and thinkers http://tigdb.com -- Discover indie games http://progrium.com -- More interesting things
