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TLSv1.3

We enabled TLSv1.3 support on the WordPress.com API today and it’s already 50% of total traffic.

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Author BarryPosted on July 19, 2018July 19, 2018Categories technical, wordpress.com1 Comment on TLSv1.3

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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Netflow and Logstash

Today, one of our network engineers, Chris Laffin, published a great post on the WordPress.com Developer Blog about how we use open source tools to analyze netflow data for our ever-growing global anycast network.

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dotScale 2013 MySQL Talk

In June, I gave a talk at the dotScale conference in Paris about WordPress.com’s MySQL database architecture and infrastructure. The video is now online:

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Author BarryPosted on September 2, 2013September 2, 2013Categories presentation, technical, wordpress.com6 Comments on dotScale 2013 MySQL Talk

Anycast

This week we started testing our global anycast network. We have a real-time map which shows which people are served by each location. Today we have three locations online, we hope to have 10-12 by the end of the year.

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The Internet is definitely not a big truck…

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Author BarryPosted on March 16, 2013March 16, 2013Categories technical3 Comments on Anycast

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About Barry Abrahamson

I'm currently the Chief Systems Wrangler at Automattic, where I'm responsible for running the globally distributed infrastructure that powers a number of services, including WordPress.com, Jetpack,  WooCommerce, and WordPress.com VIP.

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