Comments on: iMob brings down GeoNames, other iPhone apps

By: Developer

Developer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:55:16 +0000

How is it iMob’s fault. The dude created a webservice that was apparently poorly written and could not handle the traffic. Clearly the tool was not ready for prime time as it should be a trivial calculation to convert lat/long to a zip. Furthermore if you build an app and release it into the ether, be prepared for it to be used.

I do fault iMob developers for not bothering to write such a trivial lookup on their own side. However that is the SOA world we live in, distributed apps.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:25:07 +0000

When creating a free service like that you must be prepared for anything..

By: anthony

anthony — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:38:58 +0000

so is this why i can join imob but cant fight see news and marked ist and my 400 mob comes up as henchemn 1 2 3 4 blah blah?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:33:04 +0000

Shaun, I think you miss the point here. It’s a free service. That Marc guy is working hard to deliver something free to all of us. Don’t blame him for this, he can’t be prepared for everything. Blame the iMob guys, they should have updated their app with a better caching mechanism by now.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:55:20 +0000

with the increasing use of the app store, this was bound to happen eventually. they should have had better safeguards in place or have a way to manage requests per app.