Monday 18 July 2011

TweetPivot goes all Cloudy

Firstly, apologies for the huge gap in writing to this blog. We'll try to step up our efforts of the coming months.

We wanted to announce that we've now moved TweetPivot to be fully hosted on Microsoft's Azure platform. This gives us some great improvements in storage capability (and capacity) over our old dedicated server and allows us to trivially scale out in times of high usage.

We have had to temporarily sacrifice some computing 'oomph' in this new configuration though. What this means is that, even though we can handle move simultaneous requests, we can't process those individual collections as quickly as we previously could. Whilst we figure out some technical issues we've decided to reduce the standard limit on any collection to 250. You can still contact us if you'd like something bigger building.

The great news is that we're already working on version 2 of TweetPivot. This will leverage Silverlight 5 and the amazing new features baked into PivotViewer v2. Unfortunately, we can't release any of this new stuff yet, but we'll soon be publishing a video to show you all what's coming.

Once again, a huge 'thank you' to all our users for sticking with TweetPivot and keeping the ball rolling. We've got some great stuff on its way.