Articles Tagged "engineering"
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Recent update to translation support
Introduction When a site becomes sufficiently interesting to the rest of the world, there are two options: Force the community to use your native language (usually English). Or implement an internationalization system (commonly referred to as i18n). The first option isn’t practical for a serious business. Given that it’s much easier to implement an i18n […]
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Bringing AJAX To The Dashboard
We recently updated the User Dashboard to load modules asynchronously via AJAX. Wait. What does that even mean? Back in the olden days of about two weeks ago the User Dashboard worked much differently. The server went through a list of the modules the user had selected to appear on the Dashboard and rendered the […]
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MongoDB is Web Scale
MongoDB was initially added to our stack 2 years ago for our currently on-hold Tracks project. With some initial success, we quickly migrated over some of our other persistence layers; blog entries, forum threads, help documentation and other tools. After 2 years we’ve discovered that while MongoDB is very good at certain things, it is […]
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How Discogs Uses a JavaScript Module Pattern
Over the summer, our JavaScript code transitioned to using a module pattern. It’s now more organized, maintainable, and a little bit faster. Before, all of the js built upon a ds namespaced object. Each js file would then build upon this object. The artist page JavaScript would claim the ‘artist’ property, and so on. There’s […]
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Engineering Updates 9/25 – 10/8
September 11th – 17th Features, Updates, & Chores Optimized some of our background processing tasks for resiliency Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where banned marketplace items could be listed via bulk upload Fixed loading non-existent seller page to correctly display 404 error October 2nd – 8th Features, Updates, & Chores New Beta feature for modal […]
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What’s in the lab?
We recently rolled out a new feature in your settings that you may have noticed. It’s called “Labs” and ostensibly allows you to opt-in or out of features ready for public-beta. While admittedly a simple implementation in its current form the scope and impact are broad and its origin is informed by human nature and […]
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Solr, Eclipsed
Discogs’ database search recently received a major upgrade, as we announced on the blog a while ago, and as of last week we’ve now fully switched from Solr to Elasticsearch. Objects in motion… Fundamentally, Elasticsearch and Solr aren’t all that different. Both are layers on top of the venerable Lucene project; both provide an HTTP […]
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Order Timeline Beta
At Discogs, we like to participate in hack days where each person gets the opportunity to build anything they want that relates to Discogs. During the latest hack day, cburmeister and I worked on improving the order page. A recurring problem is that new buyers do not understand the order process, sometimes abandoning the order. […]
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Engineering Updates 9/11 – 9/24
This is the second installment continuing where our first post left off. This one is a couple days late due to our quarterly kickoff last week, but we’ll continue to release these roughly every two weeks. Also feel free to drop us a note in the Development forum if you have a question or bug […]
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Engineering Updates 8/28 – 9/10
This is the first installment of what we hope is an ongoing feature here at the Discogs Engineering Blog, so check back in another two weeks for more updates! Also feel free to drop us a note in the Development forum if you have a question or bug report. August 28th – September 3rd Features, […]
