I’ve been making many gradual changes to the RSS Cloud server over the last few months. Things have stabilized enough that I feel comfortable sharing now.
New Logger
The first big change was a revamp of the log page for debugging. I found that the way it was before made it almost impossible to debug your subscribers/publishers, so I wanted to change it to be more like Loggly, which was a tool I used at my last job.
Instead of storing the log in a database that would need to be cleaned up regularly, this is now a live WebSocket feed. It’s using a web component I built called Socklog.
New Stats Page
The next change I made was to add a stats page to the site. This shows how many feeds are using the server (with or without subscriptions), how many subscribers there are, and other interesting data.
Other Changes
There has also been a large overhaul under the hood. I’ve been modernizing the codebase and removing as many dependencies as I can.
In the not-too-distant future, I’ll be dockerizing the app and moving it to a new server, so a lot of my changes have been in preparation for this.
I also have a few related projects in the pipeline, but I’m not ready to publicize them yet.
