Regular readers will know that I make extensive use of Azure Table Storage in both Report URI and Security Headers. As Report URI has grown and we’re now processing billions of reports per month for our users we’re always interested in performance or efficiency savings wherever possible. We…
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Last week I published my Alexa Top 1 Million crawl for August 2018 and there was some really interesting data in there along with several new metrics covered in the report. Over the months I've managed to use my crawler data for further analysis outside the scope of the report…
I recently wrote about a little hack we did with Azure Table Storage to give us functionality equivalent to a LIKE query in SQL, something not natively supported in Table Storage itself. This is another similar hack that I've used to give me the ability to order results based on…
We use Azure Table Storage as our database for Report URI and it's an incredibly simple yet powerful storage solution. It scales transparently, has amazing performance and is cheap to use too. There was one limitation with querying data in Table Storage that we recently worked around and that's the…
As the number of servers you manage increases, keeping an eye on them all can become a bit of a task in itself. I've used Munin for quite some time but I was looking to change it out for something that was a bit easier to manage once https://report-uri.…
HSTS is a great way of protecting visitors to your website by ensuring their browser only uses a secure connection to communicate. If you use shared hosting and don't have access to change the header configuration, or you simply want to test HSTS without enabling it site wide, you can…
