Blogs

Great post on the Box tech blog on how they deal with system outages, starting with how they used to deal with them and what they have done to improve things, which has now lead to less severe outages and improved system availability.

I wanted to perform some user load testing on the HTTP endpoint of our internal metrics collection system.

I went to see The other side of the medal: how Germany saw the First World War exhibition at the British Museum today.

A quick tip I worked out today.

I noticed in my Nginx logs that a number of sites were serving my jQuery Placeholder Plugin JavaScript files directly from my site, as opposed to hosting it themselves.

After a few years with the same design, I fancied a change.

I’ve just finished reading HHhH, by Laurent Binet.

Some of my notes, thoughts, and observations after attending the excellent first GopherCon in Denver, Colorado, US.

Quick tip.

Yesterday afternoon I visited the Vikings exhibitionn currently on display at the British Museum.