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My $20 Tip 15 Aug 2013 | 06:12 am
When I finished high school I spent about 8 months working as a cable-internet installer before heading off to college. It paid well, and I was basically a glorified network card delivery boy. I’d dri...
PHP and Async requests with file based sessions 24 Jul 2013 | 04:27 am
We recently ran into an issue where several of our ajax requests were taking an inordinate amount of time to execute. Digging a little deeper into the queries being executed, I was expecting return ti...
Auth across 101 servers in 53 countries 4 Jul 2013 | 04:44 am
Authentication has been an interesting problem at WonderProxy: we currently have 101 active public servers, and hundreds of active users who each have access to a particular subset of those servers. E...
How we organize our websites 15 May 2013 | 06:19 pm
We recently migrated Where’s it Up to our fancy new hardware, it took a bit more effort than planned (some pains surrounding our use of MongoDB) but I’m incredibly happy with how things have ended up....
Buying a Zoo (server) 15 Apr 2013 | 05:25 pm
Buying physical hardware was a new step for WonderProxy, it’s hard to say that we rushed into it, this being our third year, but it sort of feels that way. We’re operating around 100 servers around th...
Where's it Up - Visualized 13 Apr 2013 | 04:04 am
Andrew Quarton developed a nifty little visualization built using the Where’s it UP API called GeoPing. Go take a look then come back. Our technology stack for the API includes supervisor to run work...
Yanking Hard Drives 8 Apr 2013 | 02:35 am
I invested a portion of my day heading down to our data centre, and yanking a drive out of our newly racked server, and watching to see what would happen. The answer was: not much. The system kept mer...
Working hard to stop treading water 24 Mar 2013 | 06:13 pm
I'm amazed at how much WonderProxy has grown. I think we signed up our first client with only 6 servers; we're on 6 continents now, with 89 proxies, and 5 private machines dedicated to things like com...
Power vs Complexity 14 Feb 2013 | 05:56 am
I ended up taking several months off development of Natural Load Testing. I needed to wait while my partner improved the software we actually use to apply the load (it’s ready now), then I was caught ...
Fixing (some) Phone Menus 12 Feb 2013 | 07:11 am
Calling a phone number on a website, and being asked to punch in numbers or say key words to navigate arcane menus to the person or department you need is silly. If you're already on a high bandwidth ...
