Month: October 2007
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Making Gravatar fast again
As Matt blogged, Automattic recently purchased Gravatar. The first thing we did was move the service onto the WordPress.com infrastructure. Since the application is very different from WordPress.com what this really means is using what we have learned from scaling WordPress.com to increase both speed and reliability of the service, as well as leveraging our…
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WordPress.com using S3
Demitrious has a great post explaining how we are using S3, Varnish, and Pound to serve 60 million image requests per day on WordPress.com UPDATE: Almost forgot, but Matt reminded me, he has a really super duper awesome post about WordPress.com and S3 too!
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Virgin America review
This weekend I flew to New York City and decided to try Virgin America. They received some press when they launched mostly around the cool lighting and seat-back computers. Here is my review: Service: A Online check-in was painless and everyone was super nice. The flight crews even have a sense of humor. Comfort: B…