A story of failure and recovery, of ideal architectures and duct tape, of bravery and romance. This is the story of Varnish.

Cimpler is a continuous intergration server built with node.js that aims to do one thing, and do it well, or at least simply.

Gnuplot can be used to quickly draw ASCII graphs of information pulled from logs or other textual sources.

We inadvertently discovered that the Google Bot delays execution of your javascript code for hours (even days) after downloading your pages.

Sometimes you just want to quickly pull out a little information.

Use Graphite and Memcache? Want to track your memcache server stats in Graphite? Bash has got your back.

A while back we released Forker, a small PHP library that enables easy parallel processing. We've been using it in production for a couple of months now, so I figured it would be a good candidate for a first post.