‘Bouncer’ Archives
What happens when you click the Firefox download button?
In this cross-post from Fred's personal blog, he describes what's going on behind the scenes to ensure you can download Firefox as fast and conveniently as possible. Read More »
Bouncer Updates
Bouncer had a few updates last night: Database library rewritten to be lightweight and use memcache (see tests) Overall requests per second performance increased 2x Database usage down to about zero because of memcache To see the difference, I'll show a couple of database graphs. Note that logging is still turned on, so there are still database connections used for updating product and mirror counts. We plan on disabling this in the future because these stats are backfilled from HTTP logs. Pretty CPU graph: Pretty traffic graph: So CPU and ... Read More »
