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Doing you own single-tenant stream is hard to manage and scale in general.
TLDR: One of their five Postgres clusters went into read-only mode due to an Transaction ID Wraparound issue. Restoring this can take up to several days (!).
I've been working on Repuso the last few months after a similar service closed down. After their closing down notice i whiped up an MVP in a weekend and started testing it with some users of the old service.
The last few months it grew into a mature service which lets you showcase social media testimonials with a single line javascript widget. All Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Zendesk and Delighed user feedback can be displayed on your most important pages to increase the conversion of your website.
Currently the Geo module only supports a range up to 20.000 km. So your idea does not work at the moment. I agree that those items are not really "nearby", but to be consistent through out the application it would be nice to be able to select without a max distance.
I needed a limit parameter for the Georadius method because i wanted a result set sorted by distance in a large radius, but not have thousands of results send from the redis server to my webservers. Anyone interested in such a parameter can use my little fork for the Geo module:
Apart from that it could also provide a service to your customers with the webhooks you utilize.
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