links for 2008-04-25

By Adam Tinworth on April 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Comments | No TrackBacks

Facebook infrastructure up to 10,000 web servers

Interesting wee breakdown of the servers needed to run Facebook.

(tags: facebook webpublishing servers scaling memcached)
Coding Horror: Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs

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 dynamicpublishing php databases blogplatforms)

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Adam Tinworth tweeted, "British journalism: deferential, elitist and in need of a good shake-up http://t.co/Z7FAhgZN"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "Help PhD research into women in journalism http://t.co/AqxfjgfJ"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "The first line of this hits the mark perfectly. http://t.co/I8SOLvXO"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "Nice coffee and catch-up with ex-colleague @robertgibsonmj2 Been too long…"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "A bit of nostalgia for ink-stained wretches: http://t.co/ncIFGCDl"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "A Blogher for the UK? Cybher » Cybher – the number one event for women who blog. http://t.co/J0ELujVc"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "@Suw And as a published genre fiction author, I agree. I'm amused by the genre not mentioned that I bet many people have on their kindles…"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "Heh. All sorts of embarrassing things can lurk on your Kindle… Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction http://t.co/B9hT3Wdl"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "Academia strikes backs? http://t.co/OiLS52Gk (Academics Revolt Against Elsevier's Journal Pricing from Paid Content)"
Adam Tinworth tweeted, "RT @AboutTheBBC: Frank Gillard reports on Princess Elizabeth's 'sorrowful journey back to the motherland' on 6 Feb 1952. http://t.co/pMf ..."