Category: software
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Nginx, SPDY, and Automattic
Yesterday, Valentin Bartenev, a developer at Nginx, Inc., announced SPDY support for the Nginx web server. SPDY is a next-generation networking protocol developed by Google and focused on making the web faster. More information on SPDY can be found on Wikipedia. At Automattic, we have used Nginx since 2008. Since then, it has made its…
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Predicting server hardware failure with mcelog
Have you ever wanted to predict that a piece of hardware in your server was failing before it actually caused the server to crash? Sure! We all do. Over the past few months, I have been tracking the correlation between errors logged to the Machine Check Event Log (MCElog) and the hard crash of a…
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WordPress Code Repository
We have decided to consolidate all of the small projects we have released into a single subversion repository. Previously these were spread across multiple domains and not very well publicized. We have setup a Trac instance as well to facilitate bug reports. There are 5 projects currently in the repository all of which we have…
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mod_auth_mysql and phpass
With the release of WordPress 2.5, there were some significant changes to the way passwords were stored in the database. Prior to 2.5, passwords were stored as MD5 hashes. While simple and easy, there were some security implications, so since 2.5, passwords are now salted and hashed using the phpass encryption library. At Automattic we…
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