links for 2008-04-25

[Facebook infrastructure up to 10,000 web servers](http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/04/23/facebook-infrastructure-up-to-10000-web-servers/)
Interesting wee breakdown of the servers needed to run Facebook.
(tags: [facebook](http://del.icio.us/adders/facebook) [webpublishing](http://del.icio.us/adders/webpublishing) [servers](http://del.icio.us/adders/servers) [scaling](http://del.icio.us/adders/scaling) [memcached](http://del.icio.us/adders/memcached))
[Coding Horror: Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001105.html)
Somewhat heated debate around the performance of WordPress under load, and how it could be improved. This was behind our choice of a static publishing route.
(tags: [wordpress](http://del.icio.us/adders/wordpress) [dynamicpublishing](http://del.icio.us/adders/dynamicpublishing) [php](http://del.icio.us/adders/php) [databases](http://del.icio.us/adders/databases) [blogplatforms](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogplatforms))

About Adam Tinworth

Adam is a digital journalism analyst, trainer and consultant. He started his career publishing newspapers for the children on his street in the 1980s, edited student magazines in the 1990s, and then spent a decade as a business journalist. In 2006, he moved full-time into digital journalism development. Since 2012, he's been trading as an independent consultant, and has worked with everything from national and international newspapers, to small local charities.