In a single word, 2019 wasInsane

We had to handle more than30 billionrequests.

36,245,715,846 to be exact.

That's 3x more than every last year.

COMBINED.


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385TB0 TB

This year alone, our infrastructure used a mere 394,240gb of bandwidth.

It's still less than Chrome's average RAM usage, but it's honest work.

We also introduced the mighty Digital Media Review.

Our own anonymized & aggregated data analysis for news websites.

That bad boy used a total of 2586 data queries, reading, compiling and caching more than 800tb of numbers in the process.

poool(1)

BSD General Commands Manual

poool(1)
Name
poool -- displays current poool codebase numbers
Synopsis
poool [-s | -N | -A | -c | -K]
Description
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2019 was the year we decided to dismantle our entire mono-service server architecture to rebuild everything as micro services.

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We added a total 276k+ lines of code (and deleted just as many) across all our repositories. And not even one intern was sacrified in the process.

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-N

We contributed to more than a dozen open-source repositories, and created a shiny secured & cross-origin iframe messaging utility called Buddy. Please love it.

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-A

We pushed more than 8k commits to our GitHub repositories, around 4% of them comming from bots like Renovate or Greenkeeper. All-hail the hypnobots!

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We triggered more than 5k CI jobs, or 1,808,141 unit tests if you speak the language of gods. We won't discuss about failed builds here, move along.

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-K

We killed 2 macbooks in the process. Sorry Tim Apple, we hate destroying beautiful products, but we needed an innocent reason to get that fancy new 16" 8tb beast.

See also
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But most importantly.

It was time to say goodbye to a good old friend.

Once and for all.

!!! [SPECIAL OFFER HERE] !!! POOOL — Internet Explorer

Address
http://www3.poool.fr/index.html

Farewell Internet Explorer!

A story about the future of the internet without its elder child.

Written by a complete stranger at the other end of your phone line.

It was a thuesday, if I recall. A completely typical thuesday at Poool: fixing typos in code, spilling gluten-free organic earl grey all over the keyboard, wondering why life is only giving lemons when secretly your favorite food is a greasy chicken strips family bucket from KFC.

The phone started ringing.

« Internet Explorer is kil
- No » [1]

Shocked, we were.

This is it. After all these years, just like that, in the blink of an eye, it was gone.

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