Musings and Random Thoughts

When I started coding what was to become XLsuite, we were serving the pages using FastCGI on DreamHost. Then, Zed Shaw built and released Mongrel, and I immediately changed our infrastructure to use Mongrel on RimuHosting. At that time, XLsuite ...

Well, it was bound to happen. We've been considering the move for ages now, and we even had a partial version of XLsuite that was open source. But this time around, it's the real deal. $ rake stats (in /Users/francois/Projects/xlsuite) +-------...

It's that time of week again when I take a couple of minutes to get the interesting data out of the logs. This week, we had a sharp increase in both assets and pages served. For the first time in 4 weeks, we also served more pages than assets! ...

I'm looking at our active instances from our RightScale account UI and I was pretty impressed with our runtimes: Click for larger image Sure, we've had hiccups along the way, but 2 instances at 200+ days and 2 more at 160? Good job, Amazon!

I'm pleased to announce that we have served 1.1 million hits in four weeks, 28 days. That's an average of nearly 40,000 hits per day. Click for larger image Unfortunately, we lost nearly 15% of our page traffic this week. Click for larger i...

Lo and behold, we're now at 820,220 hits for the past three weeks. Very interesting data trending. This week saw an increase of nearly 22% for both pages and assets. I'm sure we'll hit 1 million hits in the very near future. Click for larger ...

I had a blast at the RailsRumble competition this year. I paired with Daniel Haran and James Golick. RailsRumble is a competition in which teams are tasked to design, build and deploy an application within a 48 hour timeframe. We managed to do ...

In case you didn't know, RailsRumble 2008 is at our doorstep! Spend the weekend of October 18th and 19th with us, designing, developing, and deploying the micro application you've been dreaming about. And in case the launch isn't enough reward in...

Wow! We served more assets than pages this week! This is really surprising. Click for larger image Compared to last week, we served nearly the same number of pages, but increased our asset hits by 15%. Click for larger image Since I star...

Welcome to my XLsuite blog! I'm François Beausoleil known for Piston and my Subversion Primer for Rails projects blog post. This blog will be dedicated to my experience on working in and around XLsuite. I will talk mostly about technical issues...

It might or might not be a fluke, but in the past seven days, we served 240,000 pages. Click for larger image Some of you might recognize a screenshot from RPM, by New Relic. This application is very, very good. I depend on it daily to keep ...

Around 18:08 UTC (11:08:09 PDT), our main MySQL database server went down. Luckily, yesterday (Thurdsay), I had just replaced our whole DB infrastructure to have a replicated master/slave setup. It took us 15 minutes to notice that the sites were ...

 I found a couple of interesting things out today.First of all that paypal owns x.com - only a few 1 letter TLD's out there and PayPal owns one of them?While visiting X.com I signed up for a widget they had for creating a shopping cart that y...