RE: Blogging needs a whole new BAG...

["Micone, Andrew (Manpower Contract)" <andrew.micone@xxxxxx>]

Bob,

What scaling problem in particular are you concerned about? If you are concerned about a large number of inbound clients simultaneously polling the RSS/Atom file, you can already scale that using current technology. Its no different from scaling to handle more inbound browser traffic into a high volume web site. Of course, there's a cost involved and I'm sure some protocol tweaks could make it even more efficient, but this problem is already solvable. There's no reason to slow adoption on this account. The blogosphere is monetizing itself quickly enough that I don't think that access to this technology is an obstacle. If you are having problems, drop me a note, I'd be glad to give you some pointers. -- Andy


On May 18, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Bob Wyman wrote:
>     * Push vs. Pull: Currently, blogging is all about pull and
> polling. However, it is clear to many that the current approach simply 
> won't scale.

Tim Bray responded on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:27 PM:
>I think there's a good chance it'll scale just fine.  I expect that at 
>some point, very popular feeds are going to have to put some sort of 
>specialist polling aggregator between them and their millions of 
>subscribers, just as big websites use Akamai or other caching/staging 
>engines.  Nothing in the design of RSS or Atom gets in the way.  Trying 
>to solve the problem in advance is premature optimization.