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Javascript Performance Woes
My esteemed colleague Sergio has a great writeup about web application performance – specifically around Javascript and React. If you’re interested in working with Sergio on this type of stuff at scale (WordPress powers 43% of the web), Automattic is hiring – just mention you are interested in working on performance.
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Pingo – Monitoring the Internet One ECMP Link at a Time
Last week, a few of us from Automattic attended NANOG in San Diego and Tyler from our Netops team gave a great talk about Pingo, a tool we have written and released under the GPL. We use Pingo to detect (and sometimes predict) network congestion across the Internet. We then use this data to make…
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Data Center Heatmap
At Automattic, our systems team manages over 10,000 physical servers located across 30 data centers on 6 continents. As our compute density has increased from 24 CPU threads/RU in 2013 to 128 CPU threads/RU in 2022 the maximum thermal thresholds have decreased. Older, less powerful servers could operate with inlet air temperatures up to 42C…
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David Newman Scale Conf
Earlier this year, my colleague David Newman gave a great talk about the systems that power WordPress.com and our container-based VIP platform at ScaleConf in Cape Town, South Africa.
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