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The New Code
Saturday, Feb 2nd, 2002 -- 1:40 am

bradfitz

LiveJournal's now running The New Code that we've been working on the past number of weeks. The new code kicks ass in so many ways that I won't try to explain it concisely. I'm not too good at that, anyway. Let's just say the new code is totally sweet. The new code supports clusters, but we're not using them yet. Tomorrow or so we will be. In the meantime, there's about a billion other things that should make the site faster. But, there are probably bugs. 6 good bugs were found during the beta test and none have been reported since. But we'll be watching things closely. More news coming over the next few days as we get the clusters online. We have a ton of new hardware arriving next week. Then we get to start moving users to clusters and things get even faster. (87 Comments | Comment on this)

Bug Update
Tuesday, Jan 29th, 2002 -- 1:35 pm

bradfitz

I think most everything on the test server has been fixed... ( Details... ) (58 Comments | Comment on this)

Beta Test Update
Tuesday, Jan 29th, 2002 -- 11:52 am

bradfitz

Last night at 2am, doing homework and sleeping took precedence over fixing the reported bugs (post1, post2). I've disabled comments on those for now. I'm going to fix everything that's been reported and then post again with a list of what's fixed and ask everybody to go re-test.

Bug hunt, part 2
Monday, Jan 28th, 2002 -- 9:04 pm

bradfitz

First off, I'm assuming you've read this: Help test the new code and win prizes! :P ( So here's what's up... ) (15 Comments | Comment on this)

Help test the new code and win prizes! :P
Monday, Jan 28th, 2002 -- 7:11 pm

bradfitz

As you may or may not know, we've been busy rewriting the guts of LiveJournal so it'll perform better when run on tons of servers. (details) We've been putting all new fun features on hold until this is done. As I said in an earlier post, LiveJournal working and working really damn fast is more important than any little gimmicky features. Anyway, the new code is done and it needs testing. Before I <lj-cut> here, let me jump to the point: Find bugs and win prizes! ( How, Brad, How? Tell me more! ) (272 Comments | Comment on this)