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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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Load Balancer Update
A while back, I posted about some testing we were doing of various software load balancers for WordPress.com. We chose to use Pound and have been using it past 2-ish years. We started to run into some issues, however, so we starting looking elsewhere. Some of these problems were: Lack of true configuration reload support […]
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Amazon AWS Outage
Looks like quite a few (if not all) of the Amazon AWS services are down or performance is significantly degraded this morning. This is the first significant outage since we started using S3 to serve images for WordPress.com. Currently we serve about 1500 image requests per second across WordPress.com. About 80-100 per second are served […]
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Empire State Building Pink and Red for Valentine’s Day
Before I moved to New York, I never realized that the Empire State Building’s lighting scheme changed so frequently. I found the site where they detail the lighting schedule. The wikipedia page also has some good information. Since it’s Valentine’s Day, the lighting today was red, pink, and white. Here’s what it looks like from […]
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Manhattan Sunset
Finally made it to NYC after getting stuck for 13 hours in the Tuscon airport. There is nothing like the Manhattan skyline at sunset…
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