Category: technical

• 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…

  Barry

  July 28, 2022

  technical

• TLSv1.3

  

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

  Barry

  July 19, 2018

  technical, wordpress.com

• 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.  

  Barry

  October 10, 2017

  technical, wordpress.com

• 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.

  Barry

  February 8, 2016

  automattic, technical, wordpress.com

• 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:

  Barry

  September 2, 2013

  presentation, technical, wordpress.com