For production web servers, most people assume scaling means needing faster (and more expensive) hardware. Before spending more money on servers, first make sure your web server process is using the m…
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WakaTime’s infra is split across DigitalOcean and AWS. We use DigitalOcean Droplets for compute resources, AWS S3 to store code stats, and DigitalOcean Spaces for backups. You can find more info on th…
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Redis is an in-memory database with very high write and read speed, and a limitation that data sets can’t be larger than available RAM. It’s like memcached but supports data structures instead of just…
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Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open source text editor popular with programmers favoring modern languages. With native support for traditional IDE features(jump to definition, find references, etc…
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Happy New Year… 2020 is finally over! In 2020, more than 250k developers spent a combined 36 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime text editor plugins. The average person spent 51 minutes p…
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If you’re an independent contractor writing software, then this post is for you. Even if you do project-based invoicing, accurate time tracking is important for measuring the effort you’re devoting to…
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Hello everyone, with COVID-19 we’re switching from quarterly to semiannual updates. Here are the new features we’ve been working hard to release. 🐦 Auto-Tweet your daily coding goals - To stay account…
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Happy New Year! In 2019, over 200k developers spent a combined 25 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime text editor plugins! Programming stats for 2019. The top languages were JavaScript (5…
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We’re excited to announce new features available 2019 Q4. 📊 Anonymous team dashboards - turn this on and only project totals are displayed, individual developer times are hidden. Enable anonymous team…
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WakaTime dashboards show how long you were programming over set date ranges. To find the total hours for a project previously, you set the date on the project dashboard to when you started that projec…
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Alan Hamlett
