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We’ve rolled out an improved DB structure

As I’ve already mentioned in my previous Redis-related post, we’re improving the data-related structure of our back-end algorithms in order to deliver even more efficient, faster ENL Semantic Spinning to our awesome Spin Rewriter users.

This time around we’ve rolled out an update to the structure of our regular SQL databases. This update has significantly reduced the size of some of the database tables (in some cases, the improvement has been as high as 64-65% which is astonishing) which resulted in much faster database queries…

…which once again translates into a faster & better user experience, and a more robust platform!

We’re moving some of our processing to Redis

Once again we’ve improved our core infrastructure a bit which resulted in an even faster user experience for our awesome Spin Rewriter users, plus our back-end systems are now even more robust as an added benefit.

We’ve upgraded some of the more CPU-intensive algorithms so that they no longer rely on regular SQL databases. They’re now able to take advantage of the full power of Redis. So, what’s that? Here’s what their official website says about Redis:

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes with radius queries. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk persistence, and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster.

I realize this sounds like a bunch of gibberish, but here’s what it really means.

Basically, Redis takes certain types of data operations and performs them in a much, much more effective way than your regular SQL database. This results in a significant speed-up of CPU-intensive algorithms such as Spin Rewriter’s incredibly advanced ENL Semantic Spinning technology.

Hope you’re loving the even faster, improved Spin Rewriter! 😉

You can now easily change your API key

We know that sometimes you might wish to change your Spin Rewriter API key.

Maybe you were recording a demo video with your API key clearly visible (like the video that I’ve included below!) and you want to prevent other people from abusing your API key now that they’ve seen it. No matter what your reasons are, from now on you can always easily request a brand new API key in seconds.

To do that, simply log into your Spin Rewriter account, click the “API” link at the top to be taken to the page with your current API key, and then click the “Change your unique API key” link right below your current API key.

Doing this will invalidate your old API key instantly and generate a brand new API key for you in seconds.

Or, you can watch this video that shows you how easy it is:

Streamlined remote publishing to WordPress

As you probably already know, Spin Rewriter comes with an awesome WordPress integration. Among other things, our users are able to quickly send new spun posts directly to their WordPress websites and publish those posts (remotely, from right within their Spin Rewriter account) with a single click.

We’ve now streamlined this process even further. One user-experience challenge that we were facing was, how to automatically determine the best possible title for each freshly generated WordPress post. We’ve now settled on the following:

Imagine our user (let’s call her Catherine) has just finished spinning an article within her Spin Rewriter account, and she’s ready to publish it remotely to her WordPress website with a single click. Her article looks like this:

Learn to Play Electric Guitar – and Become a Rock God!

It’s not too difficult to learn your first couple of songs on a guitar. Here’s what you need to do: (rest of the article)

Our WordPress integration will now automatically determine that “Learn to Play Electric Guitar – and Become a Rock God!” can be used as an awesome post title, and the rest of Catherine’s article will be used as the post body. Which is perfect.

However, imagine if Catherine’s freshly spun article didn’t come with such a clear-cut candidate for a good title. In that case, Spin Rewriter will now do its “semantic-analysis” magic and determine another great title that can be used for her WordPress post. And if it’s not able to simply use the first paragraph as the title, it will of course include the entire spun article as the post body so nothing gets lost.

Give the new & improved WP integration a try today, at SpinRewriter.com! 😉

Improved parallelization of CPU-intensive tasks, Part II

OK, we’re back!

As I mentioned in the previous post (published on February 9th), here at Spin Rewriter we always strive to further improve our server infrastructure and fine-tune our code. We’re looking to deliver faster and better software that’s more intuitive and more robust than ever before.

We’ve now taken advantage of some new opportunities to parallelize certain aspects of Spin Rewriter’s existing spinning process. This means that we’re now able to run certain parts of the spinning process on multiple processors (CPUs) on different servers at the same time instead of running it on just one server.

Here’s a simplified explanation of the benefits this brings. Imagine you have an article with 20 sentences. We can either have our software detect the parts-of-speech on each of those sentences in a row, and if it takes our software one second to analyze every sentence, we’re looking at 20 x 1 second = 20 seconds of waiting time for the user.

We can, however, break this article down into 20 separate sentences — and send each of these sentences to a different server in our grid at the same time. Each of those 20 servers then processes just one sentence, and only 1 second later we get the processed results back to the central system.

The result: The same article is now fully processed in just 1 second instead of 20.

And the result that matters much more than that: Our users are even happier! 😀

Of course the exact real-world situation isn’t as cut and dry, but we were still able to roll out a significant improvement in speed and robustness of our spinning systems — and we hope you’ll love it!

Improved parallelization of CPU-intensive tasks

OK, the title of this post might sound a bit “high and mighty”, but hopefully it shouldn’t be too difficult to understand once we break it down a bit.

As you probably already know, our server infrastructure is quite state-of-the-art which allows Spin Rewriter to have great uptime and to always process all of your articles, find the best synonyms, manipulate sentence structures, export thousands of text files etc. etc. in a matter of seconds.

We always strive to further improve our infrastructure and our back-end software code. Faster, better, more intuitive, more robust — this is what drives us.

We’ve recently dug extra deeply into our software and found some new opportunities to parallelize some aspects of the spinning process. In other words, we’re now able to run a certain aspect of the spinning process on multiple processors (CPUs) on different servers at the same time instead of running it on just one server.

We’ll bring you more details in our next post, however right now we can already give you a hint that GREAT things are underway. Stay tuned! 😉

 

Our WordPress plugin just got even better!

We’ve been focusing quite a bit of our energy on the official Spin Rewriter WordPress Plugin lately, and I’m super happy to say it’s becoming even more amazing than it already was.

As I mentioned in my post last week, we’re rolling out new settings that give you additional control over everything that happens on your WordPress websites. Today we’re taking all of this another step further… Because with today’s latest update, you’ll be given the same kind of additional control over the Big Content Search portion of our plugin as well.

A new addition to the BCS settings...You'll always know exactly what's about to happen.

Feel free to update your Spin Rewriter WordPress Plugin to the latest version right away, and you’ll be able to take these awesome new features for a spin right away! 😉

New feature for our WordPress plugin

The holidays haven’t slowed us down one bit, and we’ve just rolled out a new update for the official Spin Rewriter WordPress plugin.

With this new update we’re giving you the option to decide whether you want your newly generated posts to be published immediately, or saved as Drafts so you can review and publish them manually later on.

This gives you even more control over what’s happening on your WordPress websites. This way you’re getting the best of both worlds — your new posts can be created automatically following a pre-determined schedule without you having to do anything, AND you can still manually review and publish them to make sure all content on your websites is top-notch.

To get access to this new feature, simply log into your WordPress Admin panel and update the Spin Rewriter plugin to the latest version.

There's a new setting available for the Spin Rewriter WordPress plugin!

Here you can see the new feature in action...

Hope you like the new update! 😉

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2016!

Once again we’re about to turn the page onto a new year… and once again I couldn’t be happier about the year that is slowly waving us goodbye. 2015 was another incredible year for us, and I sincerely hope it’s been an incredible year for you as well.

Right now seems like a great time to take a quick look at what lies ahead: 2016. I really hope 2016 is the year that you’ll be looking back to ten or twenty years from now… and that you’ll be saying “man, 2016 was an absolutely amazing year for me in every way — I couldn’t have wished for a better one.

As for us here at INFINET, I can promise you that we’ll keep on working incredibly hard to keep all of our customers more than happy in 2016 and beyond.

I hope all your hopes & dreams come true —
here’s to an incredible year for you,

Aaron — and the entire SmileyTech Solutions / INFINET team 😀

Last algorithm update for 2015

Christmas is now so close we can almost smell the eggnog and the mistletoe and mulled wine… and presents! Let’s not forget about the presents! 😀

Speaking of which, as our final present for 2015 we’ve just rolled out yet another spinning algorithm update for Spin Rewriter 6.0 earlier this morning. Lately we’ve noticed that some words were sometimes being duplicated once they’ve made their way through the whole process of synonym selection.

Our engineers rolled up their sleeves and went to work immediately — and I’m super happy to say we’ve now squashed that tiny little bug, and made Spin Rewriter even better!

And here’s just a tiny screenshot of what our bug-hunting adventure looked like this time around:

No more mishaps with repeated words!

It was quite a bit of fun fixing these minor mishaps! 😉

Happy Holidays,

Aaron 😀