Starting to See a Little Light – Maybe it’s the Train?
Today I got in early and really started hammering the last few issues for the Pilot starting Monday. I have 10 hours. It's got to be deployed this afternoon and that's it. We have to run in test mode for two days and then turn it on. So it was time to get down to business.
I was able to fix up the last few issues pretty easily, and by 9:00 am I was looking pretty good. People started coming in and things were looking even better, and stand-up went smoothly.
Maybe a little light?
Then I started to polish a little of the code as we needed to clean some stale code out, and clear out a few things with Salesforce - and promote something else. All looking very good. I'm hours away from the deployment for tonight, and things are looking good. I hate to say this - for fear of jinxing myself, but it was looking good.
I then had the time to look at one of the CouchDB problems I've been having: socket errors. What I was doing in the code was writing them one-by-one:
payloads.each do |data| Database.store('Final results') { data[:merchant] } end
and while it works, it's making thousands of REST calls to Couch, and that's not efficient at all. There's a bulk store API to Couch in the client we're using, and if I just change the code to be:
essentials = payloads.map do |data| data.select { |k,_| k != :demand_pool } end Database.store('Final results') { essentials }
then we're making a connection for every 2000 documents and not every one, and all of a sudden, things are under control with Couch!
This is GREAT news! I'm super happy about this. It means we may not have to ditch Couch, and that's nice, but certainly we have plenty of time to switch it out based on what we're doing and needing, and not on some socket problem with the server.
Very nice news!
The day is looking up… maybe the light isn't the oncoming train, after all!