All articles tagged BotBot.me
Saying Goodbye to BotBot.me
By Peter Baumgartner on
Our venerable IRC logger, BotBot.me logged its first lines in the summer of 2012 . Since then, it has logged over 100 million lines for more than 400 IRC channels, primarily on the Freenode and Mozilla networks. Despite the rise …
Faster Django Sites with PyPy
This post was created as a collaboration between Lincoln Loop and Maciej Fijalkowski from baroquesoftware.com. In the space of web architecture, the prevalent belief states that "database based applications are I/O bound". While this might have been true in the …
Server Migration for BotBot.me
By Yann Malet on
Last week Vitaly and I migrated BotBot.me to new servers and also launched a redesign of the user account section. You can now support us by becoming a subscriber for $3/month and even log personal channels for $2/month. If you …
Fixing race conditions and deadlocks in Go
By Yann Malet on
In the past month we worked to scale up botbot.me. Every few days the bot would get stuck in a deadlock situation that caused outage of the logging service. I had some time in front of me that I decided …