2011
3.4 million page views per day, 92 M per month, one server and Drupal
by holyver (via)
In this talk, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc., Inc will talk about a how to scale a Drupal web site with the following statistics.
3.4 million pages per day peak
92 million page views per month
189,650 page views per hour peak
840,000 visits on peak day
22.96 million visits per month
52,747 visits per hour peak
So far, this is the highest traffic a Drupal site gets that we heard of.
What is amazing is that this web site runs on a single mid range server ...
2010
High Scalability - High Scalability - 6 Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way
by ghis (via)
Interesting article about scaling a website : caching, alternative webserver, replication, take care of not messing the filesystem, ... The comments are interesting too.
High Scalability - High Scalability - Digg: 4000% Performance Increase by Sorting in PHP Rather than MySQL
by ghis & 1 other (via)
O'Reilly Radar's James Turner conducted a very informative interview with Joe Stump, current CTO of SimpleGeo and former lead architect at Digg, in which Joe makes some of his usually insightful comments on his experience using Cassandra vs MySQL.
Developing scalable PHP applications using MongoDB - PHP Classes blog - PHP Classes
by ghis
Nowadays there is a new kind of databases that is getting very popular, specially for Web development, including the PHP world, which are the NoSQL databases.
This article focus specifically on MongoDB, despite there are several other NoSQL database implementations.
2009
2008
Facebook Developers | Thrift
by webs & 3 others
Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby.
2006
1
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