The Latest Word From My Client After Last Night’s Launch

Author: , January 26th, 2011

Hey all, Wanted to let you all know that we are having a STELLAR traffic day today . . . we are at over 220k PVs already, which would be a great day for us altogether. We have a feature on the homepage of cnn.com/travel, which is driving some nice traffic. We link to a slideshow, […]

Another Magical Moment for the Wyzaerd

Author: , January 23rd, 2011

Managed to help a client find and fix the fatal flaw in their application and created a cloud-based infrastructure for them capable of handling heavy load in under one week. Boy, am I tired! Many thanks to the wife for understanding and supporting the workload.

How To Troubleshoot Varnish

Author: , January 17th, 2011

To monitor Varnish, simply run: # varnishlog http://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/reference/index.html http://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/tutorial/increasing_your_hitrate.html Important Note: By default, Varnish will NOT cache pages that have cookies!!! http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleCacheCookies sub vcl_recv { unset req.http.cookie; } sub vcl_fetch { unset beresp.http.set-cookie; }