Month: July 2011

• Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco

  After a 3 year speaking hiatus from WordCamp SF, I am excited about speaking again this year.  The most interesting part of my talks is usually the Q&A at the end, so this time we decided to get rid of the talk and go straight to the Q&A. It will focus on running large WordPress installations, but…

  Barry

  July 20, 2011

  wordcamp

• HyperDB Replication Lag Detection

  Howdy – Iliya here again. Seems like I am taking over Barry’s blog. Hopefully this will motivate him to blog more. On WordPress.com we have over 218 million tables and perform tens of thousands queries per second. To scale all of this, we shard our 24 million blogs across more than 550 MySQL servers. This…

  Iliya Polihronov

  July 20, 2011

  scaling, wordpress.com

  hyperdb