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Tech Roundup Week Ending July 21
Mike Demopoulos
TechThe Week in Review
WordPress 6.3 to Introduce a Development Mode WordPress 6.3 will introduce a new development mode. This mode can be initiated by declaring the WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE constant. It is not recommended for production sites. Possible values for WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE include core, plugin, theme,…
Over, Under, Around, and Through
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Business News Roundup for the Week of October 3 Why the WordPress.org Growth Charts Don't Matter Alex Denning pointed out in the Ellipsis newsletter that in 2019-20, only four plugins entered the space and broke into the upper tiers.…
Till Krüss on Object Cache Pro, WordPress, Plugins, Testing, and Performance — Post Status Draft 126
Dan Knauss
DraftPlanet
Transcript ↓ Back in August, I had a long conversation with Till Krüss (edited down to <60 minutes here) about his path into WordPress, Laravel, and performance. It's about time we published it as an episode of Post Status Draft!…
Pressjitsu announced its Redis Object Cache…
Dan Knauss
Pressjitsu announced its Redis Object Cache for WordPress plugin. It’s open-source, free, and it should be in the official WordPress repository soon.
Josh Habdas shares some tips on…
Brian Krogsgard
Josh Habdas shares some tips on how to set up "a $5 Vultr box and Redis with Load Impact to support up to 7000 concurrent WordPress users. " This procedure uses a performance optimization technique called Fetch Injection that enables external…
Using Kickstarter to fund open source
Daniel Bachhuber
BusinessPlanet
Open source is how we create raw ingredients for the digital economy. It's a rough, organic, and hugely important process. In fact, open source represented $143 million of Instagram’s $1 billion acquisition. Yet the role of open source as economic infrastructure is…
A New York Times liveblog that starts in Slack and ends in WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Taylor put the flow like this: Slack > Slack > Invisible City > Redis > Pusher > Web socket > React > WordPress Those were the steps to make a real time liveblog even more real time. Scott works at…
Redis object cache for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Development
WordPress has long had a Memcached backend available for object caching. Over the past several weeks, Eric Mann and Erick Hitter have built out a Redis-based alternative for object caching. Updated Source: https://ethitter.com/2014/04/redis-object-cache-plugin-available-for-download/
