This morning I worked on improving the error handling and failover of the feed engine, expecting to test it in prototype on the background when Smashwords did its routine maintenance.
Unfortunately Smashwords have a reported problem at their data center, and have been down for several hours. As a result we have been able to test the feed when it is down, but not when it is up.
The reason I was working on it was a delay in processing in some widgets if Smashwords goes down, which was being passed on to third party sites. As a result, I have put the prototype engine live, and will be switching it back into testing when Smashwords comes back up.
The problem now is some of the early, simpler, tools which don't use the engine. Fortunately most cache, reducing the impact, but under a prolonged outage that could be a problem. We will be looking into ways to fix it.
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