Comments on: Skoda, nepotism, and cheese http://brendancooper.com/2007/03/29/skoda-nepotism-and-cheese/ Digital, social media, and everything in between from someone who likes to live in bubbles, be they dotcom, social media, or whatever's next... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:02:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Greatest Viral Ever - and other assorted examples « Brendan Cooper, your Friendly Digital Social Media PR, ummm, Thingy http://brendancooper.com/2007/03/29/skoda-nepotism-and-cheese/#comment-7032 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:52:40 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/skoda-nepotism-and-cheese/#comment-7032 [...] cleverer I thought it was. Also, the more I thought about it, the higher the viewing numbers went. By late March 2007 Cheddarvision viewing figures were over half a million. It ended with over 1.5 million views. At the time I said, “It’s a brilliant, brilliant PR [...]

]]> By: Brendan http://brendancooper.com/2007/03/29/skoda-nepotism-and-cheese/#comment-5918 Mon, 12 May 2008 18:30:50 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/skoda-nepotism-and-cheese/#comment-5918 Ummm… I’m sure we corresponded about this ages ago?!

]]> By: Jim Morrison http://brendancooper.com/2007/03/29/skoda-nepotism-and-cheese/#comment-5917 Mon, 12 May 2008 17:50:26 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/skoda-nepotism-and-cheese/#comment-5917 Hi Brendan,

Know it’s a bit late in the day to be commenting! – just came across your post.

Just thought you’d like to know that the cheese wasn’t a hoax. The Flash movie is about load distribution and control…

A single server collects the image every second from the camera and distributes it to a number of other servers… the server also employs some motion-detection to look for changes in the image…

The Flash players collect a small text file constantly (every second or two) which contains a ‘framerate’… that framerate controls how frequently the flash should collect the image.

Therefore, most of the time all the flash players are only updating a couple of times a minute but when someone does something in front of the cameras all flash players pick up the framerate almost immediately.

This can cause some _serious_ load spikes as you can imagine! – we learned a lot about load-balancing!!

The framerate measurement also controls the archive-rate. We’ve been saving a picture every minute or so but when motion is detected we start saving constantly.

That way we’ve managed to create a full 1-year timelapse of the cheese with all the interesting bits in detail and without running out of hard-disc space!

You can see the time-lapses on You Tube. This is the full 12 months:

All the best,

Jim

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