Railshöck December 2019
Dimiter Petrov • Zurich, Switzerland • Talk

Date: December 04, 2019
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Swiss artists registered on mx3.ch get notified when their songs are played on the radio. How does one get airplay information from arbitrary radio streams? How is it matched against a database of songs?

In this presentation, we are going to see the challenges encountered while building a production-ready airplay matching system, including:

* writing a Ruby parser for the Icecast protocol from scratch
* working around peculiarities in Net::HTTP
* threading, queues and ActiveRecord connection pools
* gracefully handling network errors
* fuzzy matching with PostgreSQL

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Railshöck December 2019