PHP - Scott Helme

Going async with Azure and the PHP SDK for a massive performance boost

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...

Alexa Top 1 Million - Additional Analysis

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Alexa Top 1 Million - Additional Analysis

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...

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Hacking Azure Table Storage to do ORDER BY on Timestamp

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...

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Hacking Azure Table Storage to do LIKE queries

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...

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Monitoring Server and Application Health with New Relic

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...

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Issuing HSTS policy in PHP

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...