High Volume Tuning PHP FPM on nginx
As the My Store Locator Plus® service continues to grow we are finding it more important than ever to fine tune our web server and PHP processes to better serve the larger data and network demands. A recent… Read More
Why WordPress REST Performance Sucks
WordPress REST performance sucks. There, I said it. Not because I dislike WordPress — in fact I think it is the best open source web application we have seen thus far. It is a great piece… Read More
Redis Object Cache 1.3.6/1.3.7 Takes Down WordPress Sites
If you are using Redis to boost your WordPress data I/O performance you are likely using one of the most popular Redis plugins available: Redis Object Cache by Till Krüss Even season veterans such as Till cannot escape the… Read More
Improving wp_delete_post in WordPress Core
One of the common processes that runs in Store Locator Plus is deleting locations. For sites with a few dozen locations the process runs smoothly. For sites with thousands of locations but deleting one or two at… Read More
Optimizing JavaScript for Chrome
A recent discussion with a tech guru at Automattic posed a great question — how does JavaScript asynchronous processing work on a single-threaded app? Great question, but before I found out how that worked I decided to refresh… Read More