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Google Chrome’s latest feature? A nasty dark pattern
The browser is such a ubiquitous part of your daily life that it’s nearly invisible. That means you might not realize that the most popular browser, Google Chrome, is encroaching on your privacy rights. Because Chrome is run by Google, its privacy...
COPYING FILES BETWEEN S3 BUCKETS FOR LARGEFS
With WP Engine’s proprietary LargeFS system, utilizing an Amazon S3 bucket, you can offload all of your site’s images to help stay within your plan’s local storage limits. However, this does present a challenge when you want to create a new install as a copy of an...
Azure South Central US Datacenter outage and HA vs DR
As I woke up early morning I read news about the Azure South Central US Datacenter outage caused by cooling problems. On Linkedin I saw multiple posts from Azure experts that DR should have been implemented for the applications and databases. There were multiple...
GitLab raises $100 million from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1 billion valuation
Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, with participation from existing investors GV and Khosla Ventures. The latest round of funding comes nearly a year after...
Disallowed Plugins in WP Engine
With over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin repository, we only forbid a relative handful. There are pretty good odds that if you want to use a plugin on our infrastructure, you can! It’s your blog after all. But what about the disallowed...
Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2
After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has reportedly chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.The Wall Street Journal reported late...