Michael Pollett

engineering

AWS S3 at Speed

Why a “503: Slow Down” response from Amazon S3 can actually be good for you! The official AWS S3 docs on Request Rate and Performance Considerations for S3 clearly state, Amazon S3 scales to support very high request rates...

performance, aws, amazon, s3, engineering

Varnish, WordPress, Security.VCL

Now although many sites rarely sees 2billion hits a month or 1000 hits per second, why should they not be capable of this, although the direct correlation is loose, with concurrency can come speed. Speed in this sense is possibly even serving a page to a single user at a time but why not do it in a decent timeframe...

engineering, wordpress, performance, caching, varnish