Gignal

We had set up an #egypt stream, aggregating tweets and photos. We deliberately excluded check-ins, so we wouldn’t expose anyone at the scene. It went very well for a day, but then the database crashed - we fixed it- and then it crashed again.

So to look at the bright side, It turned out to be a good test case, due to the large amounts of data. We already planned to implement MongoDB, that task just became more urgent.

Lesson learned: You only have a problem if you don’t know the solution!

Back to work….