Barry on WordPress

  • 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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  • Speaking about WordPress Security in Houston

    UPDATE: Slides have been posted on SlideShare. I am going to be giving a talk about WordPress Security at next month’s Houston WordPress Meetup. If you are around Houston on February 8th, come by and say hi howdy.

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  • iPad Stats Visualization

    Evan has a cool post showing some of our internal heat map stats and some interesting points on data visualization.

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  • Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco

    After a 3 year speaking hiatus from WordCamp SF, I am excited about speaking again this year.  The most interesting part of my talks is usually the Q&A at the end, so this time we decided to get rid of the talk and go straight to the Q&A. It will focus on running large WordPress installations, but

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  • HyperDB Replication Lag Detection

    Howdy – Iliya here again. Seems like I am taking over Barry’s blog. Hopefully this will motivate him to blog more. On WordPress.com we have over 218 million tables and perform tens of thousands queries per second. To scale all of this, we shard our 24 million blogs across more than 550 MySQL servers. This

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