April 21, 2008
NGINX requests - by day
A blog post I wrote last night ended up on the front page of Reddit this morning. As of 2pm, I have had more unique visitors today than I had in January-March of this year combined!
My stack of nginx, Apache, Django and memcache all kicked in exactly as designed, and handled the flood of visitors without breaking (much) of a sweat, on a $25-a-month virtual server.
(Hat tip to Simon Willison for blogging about using this architecture. and inspiring me to preemptively deploy it on my own blog)
August 21, 2007
Selenium Remote Control: About
Saw a presentation on this at BarCampBlock, and I absolutely have to delve into it further. “Selenium Remote Control is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.”
September 4, 2006
Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors
Track where users are clicking on your webpages so you can slap in advertising/tune your site’s usability (delete as appropriate)
May 6, 2006
Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots
Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content.
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