August 14 2018 Outage Post-Mortem

Below is a post-mortem analysis of Kernl’s August 14 2018 outage. It details what happened, why it happened, and how we can improve things so that this doesn’t happen again in the future. What? At 9:29PM EDT alerts were triggered saying that Kernl was down. Initial investigation showed that the marketing site was still up… Continue reading August 14 2018 Outage Post-Mortem

Building & Scaling Kernl Analytics

Over the past 3 years I’ve often received requests from new and existing Kernl customers for some form of analytics on their plugin/theme. I avoided doing this for a long time because I wasn’t sure that I could do so economically at the scale Kernl operates at, but I eventually decided to give Kernl Analytics… Continue reading Building & Scaling Kernl Analytics