• [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))