I was pretty quiet last month. There was a lot of work to do on the server side and a lot of small bugs to fix. While BazQux Reader is running on many servers web part was running only on a single machine as well as a feed fetcher. Only database and search index were distributed. You might be surprised how it worked that fast on a single machine serving thousands of people and a single machine fetching millions of feeds. Answer is simple -- Haskell. Instead of using slow interpreted languages...