Apologies for the mess

Sunday, March 11, 2012, at 08:10PM

By Eric Richardson

It's a bit messy around here at the moment as I take big swings at some of the architectures underneath this little site.

This afternoon I moved the site from a pair of Amazon EC2 t1.micro instances to one of the new 64-bit m1.small instances, getting away from the nasty CPU limits that kill performance after a couple page loads. I also rolled in the newly-engined AssetHost, finding and squashing plenty of instances where I hadn't yet namespaced bits of code in there along the way.

Starting tomorrow I'll be doing some write-ups on things that I've been working on for KPCC, so my silent February should transition into a relatively-wordy March.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

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2001
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2000
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1999
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