The Scale Bottleneck in Modern Feed Ingestion Polling a handful of RSS or Atom feeds at a fixed interval is straightforward. Polling tens of thousands is a different systems problem. A naive scheduler may issue requests every 15 or 30 minutes regardless of whether a publisher has changed anything. At scale, that creates a steady […]

The Anatomy of Syndication Beyond Third-Party Parsers Web feeds remain useful because they provide a direct, machine-readable pipeline from a publisher to an ingestion system. An aggregator can poll a source, retrieve a bounded XML document, extract newly published entries, and pass normalized records to a search index, event bus, warehouse, or notification service. That […]

It is fair to say that computers play a key role in the modern world. They have a vast amount of different applications. There is a rich history of computing as it has shaped the modern human era. However, these machines are still in their infancy. Institutions are creating new courses focused on training the […]