Barry on WordPress

  • 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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  • 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. The Internet is definitely not a big truck…

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  • Batcache 1.2

    Batcache version 1.2 was released today. It fixes a fun bug that could cause incorrect cached content to be returned in some cases. The default Batcache key has been updated to include $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] which means when you upgrade, all of your keys will be immediately invalidated. For most folks using a short TTL this won’t

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  • Formula 1 Tickets

    See you in Austin!

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  • Nginx Case Study

    A case study I worked on with Andrew Alexeev at Nginx was republished on High Scalability.  The Hacker News thread has some good conversation as well.

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