Caching a Front Page That Nobody Meant to Cache
Two winters ago I ran the read side of a news aggregator not unlike this one: a PHP front page, a Python ranker writing into MySQL 5.7, and nginx 1.18 in front doing fastcgi_cache. The symptom was sub
Has broken enough production to have opinions about deployments.
Two winters ago I ran the read side of a news aggregator not unlike this one: a PHP front page, a Python ranker writing into MySQL 5.7, and nginx 1.18 in front doing fastcgi_cache. The symptom was sub
I run a small ShakeMap-adjacent pipeline on a Raspberry Pi 4 (8 GB, Debian 12, Python 3.11) that pulls the USGS GeoJSON summary feeds every five minutes and writes a rolling CSV I use for a local dash
Some context first: this is not about a big earthquake. It is about the small ones that keep showing up in my logs and never make the feeds. I run a three-station Raspberry Shake network on a farm in
During the 2023 swarm near our county line I was keeping a hand-typed CSV of every felt report my neighbors sent in: roughly 1,400 rows over nine days, timestamps in three different formats, and a col