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City of Federal Way

The federalwaywa.gov website is the main site for the City of Federal Way in Washington State. This site is a resource for residents, visitors, businesses, and people interacting with the city government.
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🕑Aug 22, 2023 🖋John Locke 💬2

Rate Limiting an aggressive bot in Nginx

High load isn't necessarily an emergency, but it may be a heads-up before a site noticeably slows down. Sometimes there are weird spikes that just go away, but sometimes this is an indication of a Denial of Service.

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🕑Jul 01, 2015 🖋John Locke 💬0

Embed or integrate? The problem with widgets

We hear it all the time:

Why do you recommend a 6 hour budget for a simple integration? Here's an embed widget right here -- if this were WordPress I could do it myself!

Well, in Drupal you can do it yourself, exactly the same way you might in WordPress. Add a block, use an input format that doesn't strip out Javascript, paste in your code, put the block where you want it on your page, and away you go.

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🕑Jul 16, 2014 🖋John Locke 💬2

Performance problem: N! database calls

Kicking off some posts about various performance challenges we've fixed.

N Factorial

[Edit: Thomas point out this is not really factorial, because it's addition of each number in the sequence intead of multiplication].

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