Wolfabua and Zauchi - our JavaScript Lead Developers will be in Boston between September 29 - October 1 in Boston, MA and attend _the_ Ajax Conference. Here’s what http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com says:

“The only Web 2.0 development event created by developers, the real experts working in the trenches who have encountered and conquered today’s most pressing pain points. The Ajax Experience is the original and most in-depth rich internet application conference addressing cutting edge topics, from cross-browser compatibility to how to choose the right framework and everything in between.”

Enjoy your time and come back with a lot of new knowledge :)

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… quoting Michael on the last comment on the Reality Jockey post of July 3rd, 2007.

Michael and Reality Jockey have a new home: http://www.rjdj.me

We wish you all the best for the future!

Manfred, Jodok and the rest of the Lovely Team.

Screenshot from www.a-z.ch

We built the search and find portal www.a-z.ch for our new customer AZ Crossmedia AG.

Our challenge: we had to create a scalable search and find portal with google maps integration with multiple import sources for jobs, real estates, clubs and companies in a very short time-slot of about 3 month only.

Geo located urban news from and for habitants.

We are proud to present the rebrushed version of the urban portal meinBerlin: http://www.meinBerlin.de
The new version has a focus on usability. With the experience we have made within the last month, we created a portal which is more simple to use and makes even more fun than before.

The technical realization is a co-producation with the guys from urban media. A big thanks to Zauchi, Armin, Jürgen and our customer urban media.

Since more than half a year Lovely Systems is using the extremely fast, super reliable, super easy, super duper NGINX Reverse Proxy. Congratulations NGINX! According to the latest Netcraft Survey 06/2008 NGINX is already number 5 of the Webservers worldwide! Seems like we had the right anticipation :)

As the blog post title mentions - Speed matters. There are some more news… We’re happy to announce that we upgraded our Loadbalancers and finally bought a pair of F5 BIG-IP Loadbalancers. F5 is the global leader in application delivery networking and the products are well known for their stability. To quote Töns Büker, our Servicemanager at o2 (Germany): “Der LB wird aber wahrscheinlich auch noch auf ping antworten, wenn jemand Benzin drübergegossen und ihn angezündet hat …”. After the upgrade we’ll be able to serve up to 650 MBit/s dynamic traffic from our Application Server Cluster and up to 2 GBit/s of static (e.g. Video) traffic from our content delivery cluster. 

Next week we’ll be sprinting in New York/San Francisco to get the Zope3 framework and the first lovely applications running on Google AppEngine. You’re welcome to join us.Google AppEngine is a perfect match to the transition we at Lovely Systems made during the last 12 month in “stealth mode”. We’re using heavily WSGI and are replacing ZODB within most of our applications.Tomorrow we’re leaving to New York visiting our friend reco. dobee and I will be working on getting the component architecture running on AppEngine. Later next week we’ll fly to San Francisco to attend Google I/O and get even more insight to the technology. We’re open to release lovely.nozodb and the related components in near future, as usual - just some polishing missing…Please drop me a note (jodok@lovelysystems.com, batlogg on skype/AIM) or give me a call (+43 664 9636963) if you want to join us.  

we made it. http://www.zoomer.de is finally online.

A large part of the Lovely Team was working hard during the last 6 month to get the thing going.

The Technology behind it? Lovely!

lovely.news = cutting edge Python/Zope3 software, PostgreSQL Databases, ZEO Clusters, WSGI pipelines, Varnish Caches, Nginx Reverse Proxies, F5 Load Balancers.

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The content on zoomer.de? Lovely as well! A young, dynamic team. Backed by long-term news experts. Just watch their video and use zoomer.de :)

Thanks a lot, lovely team. especially quodt, jukart, schwendinger, dobee, jayeff, wolfabua, stmartin, iham, pjee, haudum. you rock!

Lovely Systems is using Amazons Elastic Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and Simple Queue Service (SQS) for business critical applications. yesterday we experienced a outage of the services.

while it’s really bad that our services were down as well. i need to say that it was the first outage within 2 years! that’s awesome.

On the other hand - where is the support hotline? who can we call? who can we mail in case of troubles? My mail to the “Business Development Inquiries” was answered 11hours later…

But nevertheless: Amazon, keep on the good work - we’ll use your services more and more in future.

here’s the official statement from AWS:

Here’s some additional detail about the problem we experienced earlier today.

Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of our locations. While we carefully monitor our overall request volumes and these remained within normal ranges, we had not been monitoring the proportion of authenticated requests. Importantly, these cryptographic requests consume more resources per call than other request types.

Shortly before 4:00am PST, we began to see several other users significantly increase their volume of authenticated calls. The last of these pushed the authentication service over its maximum capacity before we could complete putting new capacity in place. In addition to processing authenticated requests, the authentication service also performs account validation on every request Amazon S3 handles. This caused Amazon S3 to be unable to process any requests in that location, beginning at 4:31am PST. By 6:48am PST, we had moved enough capacity online to resolve the issue.

As we said earlier today, though we’re proud of our uptime track record over the past two years with this service, any amount of downtime is unacceptable. As part of the post mortem for this event, we have identified a set of short-term actions as well as longer term improvements. We are taking immediate action on the following: (a) improving our monitoring of the proportion of authenticated requests; (b) further increasing our authentication service capacity; and (c) adding additional defensive measures around the authenticated calls. Additionally, we’ve begun work on a service health dashboard, and expect to release that shortly.

Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team

thanks mrtopf for photographing and blogging :) http://technorati.com/tag/snowsprint2008

Nothing more to say! see you next year!

– jodok

Countdown for snow-sprint is running!

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