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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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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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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.