Most of the stuff that happens during a week at work is too long for Twitter and too short for a blog post. There are still things that I’d like to share, so I thought I’d try batching them up.
New Database Server
We made our first hardware purchase of 2009 - a new database server from Silicon […]
Just a little something to get the ol’ blog rolling again.
Last March, I wrote a tiny post that listed a few of the pieces that run Ravelry along with my opinion of each. Here is a update to that list. The biggest change? I’ve been running Phusion Passenger + Apache as application servers for […]
Another dry sysadmin/deployment related post. If any of you Ravelry people want to hear about something in particular, please leave a comment
A few quick notes about how I’m actually running my app:
Web server : nginx. I ran Apache for a while before I switched to nginx. Nginx uses far less resources under load […]
Writing the software to run a site is only part of the work - you also got to make sure that everything keeps running smoothly. Keeps your systems tuned and happy doesn’t have to be drudgery - I’ve found it to be fun and interesting work as long as you simplify and streamline […]
