Comments on: Something geeky that happened In Berkeley

By: GJELblogger

GJELblogger — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:48:01 +0000

I use Wordpress and Twitter, and I heart RSS. I’m totally intrigued by some kind of cloud-based combination. Not a developer, so I’ll stay away from the rssCloud meetup, but please post anything interesting that happens there!

By: Sam V

Sam V — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:41:45 +0000

I see that the scalability issue does not necessarily rest at the blog site, but with the cloud server. However, for many people the cloud server may be the same as the blog’s.

I suppose that 1000 incoming requests for a traditional pull of an RSS feed would be just as taxing on the network and hardware as 1000 outgoing requests, so perhaps there is no increased scaling issue for the blog server with supporting a push mechanism like this.

By: Sam V

Sam V — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:02 +0000

This sounds very cool. Hardly groundbreaking, as the technology has been around to do this for years, as well the idea since 2001 it seems, from the original RSS spec. But with Wordpress officially supporting it on their hosted blogs, as well as the self-hosted Wordpress.org software, this may really take off.

My main question is, will this scale? I haven’t looked into how the Wordpress plugin for self-hosted blogs works exactly, but if say, I have 1000 subscribers to my blog, when I write a new post, will I be basically pinging possibly 1000 different IP addresses if they all had requested real-time/rssCloud updates.

By: Jason Miller

Jason Miller — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:12:05 +0000

Cool!

By: Owen Greaves

Owen Greaves — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:11:33 +0000

This is very exciting, it will be very interesting how this will impact other development projects. Thanks for your work and posting this.