It’s been quite awhile since we’ve done an update post. Active feature development of Kernl has slowed down a bit over the past year, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t making improvements. Let’s dive in! Upgraded our OAuth library to it’s latest version. This enabled the upgrade from Node 14.x to Node 16.x. Migrated away… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – July 2022
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What’s New With Kernl? November 2021
Happy (nearly) December! We haven’t done one of these in awhile, so let’s dive in and check out all the great updates. Features & Updates Kernl Analytics Filterable Domains – You can now filter the domain list by product, WordPress, and PHP version. This is useful if you want to find something like “all domains with… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl? November 2021
What’s New With Kernl – July 2021
Summer is typically a slower season at Kernl, so it has been awhile since we’ve done one of these. Over the past few months we’ve done a lot of deep infrastructure work, so let’s break it down! Features & Infrastructure The Kernl load testing charts now show the number of users at a any given… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – July 2021
What’s New With Kernl – April 2021
April was huge month for Kernl with regards to infrastructure! We also fixed a handful of bugs and started work on a new analytics feature. Let’s dig in. Features, bugs, & infrastructure RoboSwarm, the Kernl product that powers our load testing product, has been migrated to Heroku. This is part of a broader effort to… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – April 2021
What’s New With Kernl – January 2021
It’s the first update of 2021 and I hope it finds you well! With any sort of luck 2021 will be a better year than 2020 was. Let’s dive in to the update. Features, updates, bugs Unified Redis – Kernl uses Redis in a handful of different places for caching and queuing. It used to… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – January 2021
What’s New With Kernl – October 2020
Happy (almost) November! It was a very bug-fix and infrastructure heavy month for Kernl, so lets dive in! Features, Bugs, & Infrastructure Redis robust connection handling – We’ve done some resiliency work so that Redis failing will not cause any issues in Kernl. If Redis goes away, all traffic is handled un-cached. Once it comes… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – October 2020
What’s New With Kernl – September 2020
Hello! I hope that everyone had a great September. This wasn’t a big feature month for Kernl, but we did fix some bugs and make some minor enhancements. Let’s dive in! Features, Bugs, and Other Improvements Load Testing – The 100th percentile for “final” response time distributions wasn’t being recorded. The reporting position changed in… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – September 2020
What’s New With Kernl – August 2020
Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since the last update message, but now that summer is nearly over in the northern hemisphere Kernl will again be receiving regular updates and enhancements. This doesn’t mean that we weren’t busy though! Let’s dig in. New Features License Management Activated Domains – When viewing your license list, you can… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – August 2020
What’s New With Kernl – May 2020
Hello everyone and welcome to the May 2020 edition of “What’s New with Kernl”! This month was relatively slow for us with little work on new features and more focus on bugs and refactoring. Let’s dive in. We now have video tutorials for enabling Git deployments on your WordPress plugins and themes. You can see… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – May 2020
What’s New With Kernl – April 2020
Kernl had another great month, with some bug fixes, blog entries, and a few new features. Most importantly we’re announcing a limited beta of our new global update CDN! With our new global CDN powered by Vercel, every Kernl update request is cached at edge nodes around the world. This means <= 50ms response times… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – April 2020