Articles Tagged "engineering"
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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, […]
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Updated Discogs API Client
Today we are releasing a new, updated version of the our Python API client! Since we are deprecating the old API endpoints on Friday, August 22nd, an update to our API client was necessary. This includes the addition of OAuth support and much better coverage of our API, as well as documentation updates (including a […]
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New API Documentation
Hello, all! Today, we are rolling out a new documentation system for our API. Our previous documentation tool had a few limitations and drawbacks, mostly in terms of structuring examples of endpoint request/responses without creating very long pages, navigation difficulty, and the compilation process was more involved than necessary. Our new system allows for providing […]
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Forum Notifications
We’ve just introduced a new notification setting for the Forum. You now have the option to receive reply notifications for threads you’re watching in your Discogs inbox, or personal email inbox. Change your notification settings here: https://www.discogs.com/settings/notifications
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Forum Updates – Making the move from MySQL to MongoDB
Before I started working at Discogs, the team asked if there was anything I’d like to work on in particular. My response was the Forum. Finally my dream became a reality. I spent the last two months rewriting the Forum from the ground up. Most of you may have only noticed some minor interface changes, […]
