Tags and Performance
August 25, 2007
Speaking of suggestion of tags for post and bizbob, he added an enhancement request to our Trac DB proposing that the tags suggested in the list should not only be based on previous tags in the DB but on frequent words that are found in users posts and that users with a high score value should be weighted in so that their tags should appear highest in the list.
Oh well, that could be done, I responded as always, but what does our UX specialist says about ordinary words coming up in the tag list and what will happen with our performance? Bob responded that it just a matter of looking up words in another table… Can someone tell me why biz people knows that there are tables in a database?
We’re not yet having the Twitter issues and Pownce problems with the performance of our social network community but that could be because we are still in a beta phase with a limited number of users
I really need to populate the dev server’s DB with some millions of posts, comments and tags tomorrow and put a load test on it to see where we are regarding the performance at the moment.
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bizbob | August 26, 2007 at 9:54 am
It wasn’t just any words that I suggested should come up as suggestions in autocomplete when populating the tag list. It was titles only. And with our concept, I think it could really simplify tagging for the members.
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Emanuel | August 26, 2007 at 2:33 pm
When will social networks and web 2.0 sites grow up and start to use enterprise frameworks instead of those script based things? It might be that they are fast to put up a prototype site in but apperantly sites like Twitter is mongrelling a whole farm of hardware and Pownce, although still in invitation mode, are perlballing the traffic.
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Ronald Johnston | September 2, 2007 at 9:16 pm
I saw on the log you link to that you use Trac in your project. How big a project would it take to really make it worthwhile to set it up? I mean, you can get pretty far with e-mail, chat and Google groups. Why have you decided to go for a ticket system like Trac? And why Trac specifically?
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TechToby | September 4, 2007 at 7:04 am
Ron, Trac is a good alternative to get your stuff on trac if you are more than one person in your project. It will not substitute the ordinary communication you have in the project but help you out with the planning. You will also get a good view on the source code and your changesets if you’re using subversion.