The official "last post of 2013" thread

[scooterscot]

You was robbed!

The polls were fixed I tell you.

[NickFitz]

Why?

I wanted to see what it takes for a Twitter Streaming API client to keep up with the busiest time a hashtag can have, and this seemed like a good candidate. As I'm saving the data with microsecond timestamps I can replay it later for testing stuff. It's mainly for a thing I've got an idea about

[mudskipper]

Where's AtW? Don't tell me he had a real party to go to!

[suityou01]

I wanted to see what it takes for a Twitter Streaming API client to keep up with the busiest time a hashtag can have, and this seemed like a good candidate. As I'm saving the data with microsecond timestamps I can replay it later for testing stuff. It's mainly for a thing I've got an idea about

Can I ask what you pay for your EC2?

[NickFitz]

Cough...

First post of 2014? You want the thread down the hall, second on the left

[scooterscot]

First post of 2014? You want the thread down the hall, second on the left

I think this thread was named in error.

[NickFitz]

Can I ask what you pay for your EC2?

Normal on-demand charges in this case, as I'm just running this server for a few hours. For anything long-running it's worth investing in a reserved instance, and if you need to scale out then spot instances with a fallback to on-demand if no spots are available is the way to go.

I've also got an AWS account for my Ltd which has the year-one free allowance, but the underlying project this caper is for probably isn't billable through the business. If it turns out it is, it'll have to go through expenses.

[barrydidit]

!

The polls were fixed I tell you.

oi, scoot.... is this any consolation? Seems you're a posterboy for the middle classes... of sorts!

Happy noo year y'all

[AtW]

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[suityou01]

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