WordPress.com Serves 70,000 req/sec and over 15 Gbit/sec of Traffic using NGINX. This is a guest post by Barry Abrahamson, Chief Systems Wrangler at Automattic, and Nginx's Coufounder Andrew Alexeev. WordPress.com serves more than 33 million sites attracting over 339 million people and 3.4 billion pages each month. Since April 2008, WordPress.com has experienced about 4.4 times growth in page views. WordPress.com VIP hosts many popular sites including CNN’s Political Ticker, NFL, Time Inc’s The Page, People Magazine’s Style Watch, corporate blogs for Flickr and KROQ, and many more. Automattic operates two thousand servers in twelve, globally distributed, data centers. WordPress.com customer data is instantly replicated between different locations to provide an extremely reliable and fast web experience for hundreds of millions of visitors.
Problem WordPress.com, which began in 2005, started on shared hosting, much like all of the WordPress.org sites. Solution In April 2008 Automattic converted all WordPress.com load balancers from Pound to NGINX. References.
SmallTalk. Mobile Development. Gartner: How Big Trends in Security, Mobile, Big data and Cloud will Change IT. Trying to get through it all can be daunting so we've tried to simplify that process by distilling a variety of Gartner ITxpo presentations and coming up with the most salient information. So here goes. From the Gartner analysts, presentations on: The world of IT • Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 3.8% increase from 2012's projected spending of $3.6 trillion, but it's the outlook for big data that is creating much excitement. That's because by 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States. Big data creates a new layer in the economy which is all about information, turning information, or data, into revenue.
. • Big data currently has the most significant impact in social network analysis and content analytics with 45% of new spending each year. • In the next three years, the dominant consumer social networks will see the limits of their growth. Mobile Security Cloud. Gartner: 10 Critical IT Trends for the Next Five Years. Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is not a job for the faint of heart. That point was driven home at Gartner's IT annual IT Symposium fest here where analyst David Cappuccio outlined what he called "new forces that are not easily controlled by IT are pushing themselves to the forefront of IT spending.
" The forces of cloud computing, social media/networking, mobility and information management are all evolving at a rapid pace. These evolutions are largely happening despite the controls that IT normally places on the use of technologies, Cappuccio stated. "IT was forced to support tablets, and end users forced them to support IM and wireless networks a few years ago.
And more such technologies are on the horizon," he said. Cappuccio's presentation listed the following as the "Ten Critical Trends and Technologies Impacting IT During the Next Five Years. " The following is taken from Cappuccio's report: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies. Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting. Those initial investments will in turn trigger a domino effect of upgrades and new initiatives that are valued at $34 billion for 2013, per Gartner. Over a 5 year period, spend is estimated at $232 billion. What you’re seeing right now is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg. Big Data is presently synonymous with technologies like Hadoop, and the “NoSQL” class of databases including Mongo (document stores) and Cassandra (key-values).
Today it’s possible to stream real-time analytics with ease. But there are new, untapped advantages and non-trivially large opportunities beyond these usual suspects. Did you know that there are over 250K viable open source technologies on the market today? We have a lot of…choices, to say the least. We did all the research and testing so you don’t have to. Storm and Kafka. Www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/tutorials/ws-soa-ibmcertified/ws-soa-ibmcertified-pdf.pdf.