Flix Cloud is experiencing slow job processing & response times. We’re looking into it & will post reports as we learn more. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[UPDATE 11:52AM EST] We’re back up but slow. Accepting job requests, but with a limited number of workers. Hopefully be able to ramp up workers through the afternoon.

[UPDATE 11:43AM EST] We found multiple instanced of our queue scripts running on the DB server. These may have contributed to high CPU load.

[UPDATE 11:27AM EST] Our suspicion is that there is an outer_join query somewhere in the system keeps throttling the database. We had to block incoming jobs to try & locate the problem query.

This week we switched from ffmpeg to mediainfo for incoming video inspection. Mediainfo is a very nice tool, and failed inspections have all but disappeared since we deployed it in Flix Cloud.

Our friends at Zencoder took the “Most Useful” prize at the 2009 Rails Rumble with a video transcoding and delivery web app that uses Flix Cloud. Congratulations, guys!

Details and a demo video at Rails Rumble: Micro-App Competition Winners Announced.