Feedly Team: Self-research back-end platform or open source

Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11189.html ">feedly team: Self-research back-end platform or open source 23 hours ago | Times Read | SOURCE csdn| 0 Reviews | Author Wangfangqing feedlygoogle Open-source RSS digest: Google Reader's bad news has caused feedly users to soar 500,000, but it has also put a lot of pressure on feedly back-end services. Although there are many applications competing with feedly, Feedly has an absolute advantage, the backend platform called Normandy, which the team started to develop a few months ago. Feedly Team founder said that the future will be possible open source Normandy.

According to The Verge, Google announced that it would close its Google reader message two days later, about 500,000 users have moved to the new RSS reader application feedly. Feedly became a refuge for many users of Google Reader, but it was no coincidence.

Feedly quietly unveiled a solution when Google announced it would stop Google Reader service on July 1 and RSS enthusiasts were eager to find alternatives. They have been developing a project called Normandy for months to replace the Google Reader API. Now, any user registered before July 1, can smoothly transfer the data in Google Reader seamlessly into the feedly.

For many reading applications, the biggest challenge comes from the back end, as is the case for feedly. The two-day surge in the flow of 500,000 of users has delighted the 10 team and kept them busy. Feedly founder and CEO Edwin Khodabakchian said: "Although we are technically and psychologically prepared, but the sudden influx of large numbers of users, so that information loading unusually slow." So our main task for the next week is to keep the service running.

Unfortunately, things have not evolved as he has analyzed, so it is unclear how many new users have been added, and the only certainty is that the service has basically stabilized after adding a single bandwidth and server.

Things seem calm, but the problem is far from over. One of the biggest problems in replacing Google Reader is its application, which is more than just an RSS subscription system that allows users to add tags to their reading content for later retrieval, and after analyzing tag, it will be targeted at recommending content to the user.

Although many applications compete with feedly, Feedly has an absolute advantage, a backend platform called Normandy, developed by the team. Unlike the old Google Reader API, Edwin Khodabakchian wants Normandy to be more open. Currently, feedly plans to open it up to other developers to use, and is trying to find help in future open source Nomandy.

This means that one day in the future, Feedly, a small start-up, is likely to become a core member of a large application ecosystem. Although Google said in 2010: "Google Reader has millions of monthly active users," but it is difficult to see the RSS market in the end how much potential.

Khodabakchian said feedly would continue to grow and that they planned to recruit 10 more members by the end of the year. Given that companies will continue to expand, they are likely to finance them. At present, although feedly is not self-sufficient, but they have begun to have some income. As for how to make a profit, he argues, feedly might use the freemium model, or work with publishers to develop new vertical ads and embed them in applications.

(Text/Wangfangqing Zebian/Zhang)

Article Source: the Verge,bizjournals

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