dotScale 2013 - Barry Abrahamson - Scaling MySQL at Wordpress.com
Why the open web links it
Discusses how WordPress.com scaled MySQL to handle high traffic and large data volumes.
Linked by 4 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, goip.de, uysalmustafa.com.