Upgrading Mobile Analytics
Published October 15, 2011 by Richard Uren
Flowers by Peter Gorges
Hi Folks, Its been a while. We’ve been busily building out our new Mobile Analytics system which I am very happy to announce will go live shortly on our servers. Highlights include a massive speed improvement (up to 1000x in some cases), flash free charts (instead of a blank box on your swanky new tablet you’ll now get a sweet, informative, chart) plus mobile browser and mobile language stats – which we found lurking about the place !
You’ll know the upgrade is in progress when you see this orange message on the login screen :
Hi, We are presently upgrading analytics. The full upgrade will take 72 hours.
See our blog for more information.
Like the message says, the upgrade itself will take 72 hours. That’s a theoretical 72 hours, factoring in things as best as we can judge them. Worst case it might run to 96. Records will be migrated from most recent to oldest, so your 30 day stats should be fine after 5 or 6 hours. Close to 120 million MySQL records needs to be examined, tweaked and cross referenced before finding their new home in our shiny new MongoDB servers. Its all scripted of course so we don’t have to do that by hand ! Phew. :)
This is a complete rewrite, from the ground up, and it paves the way for us to do much more interesting things with mobile analytics in the near future. We hope you enjoy it.
Analytics will be online during migration however you might find inconsistencies in totals while the migration is in progress.
Detection services will not be affected by this upgrade.
Image credit : Peter Gorges @ Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/petergorges)
UPDATE : Upgrade delayed until Monday 3pm Central.
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