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High Scalability: Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter

meaghano:

buzz:

If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in keeping Tumblr humming along, here’s a great overview courtesy of Blake Matheney.

Just reading this stressed me out, and I don’t know what half of the words mean.

Unbelievable view of cloud computing in practice.

Source: mattlehrer