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WordPress’ Newest Data Center

February 17, 2009 By John P. 5 Comments

For those of you who don’t know Barry, he’s the mastermind behind the infrastructure that powers WordPress and all of their various services (Akismet, bbPress, Gravatar, etc.). He seriously knows a lot about hosting infrastructure, as he demonstrated when he gave this lecture about WordPress performance at WordCamp SanFrancisco 2007.

Anyway, this morning he posted a little article about the newest WordPress data center and included a video shot by Aaron Phillips. Watch really closely and you might catch a glimpse of my cameo…
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Filed Under: Computing, Videos, Wordpress Tagged With: Aaron Phillips, Barry-Abrahamson, Computing, Wordpress

WordCamp 2007: HyperDB and High Performance WordPress

August 16, 2007 By John P. 7 Comments

What do you do when your blog goes from a thousand pageviews a day to a million? Well, you start out by watching this video of a lecture on HyperDB and High Performance WordPress given by Barry Abrahamson and Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp 2007, in which they explain how they scale WordPress.com across hundreds of servers and constantly tweak and improve performance.