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From FOWA : Scaling Web Applications
There's no way we could summarize everything Matt said on the how and why behind scaling Wordpress.com but, here are a few (rough) notes:
- Do the easy things first. For example, before throwing more hardware at your application, try building a proxy wall with Squid.
- Wp-Cache can do quite a bit for mid-scale blogs. (We recommended WP-Cache on The Squadcast in episode 11)
- Really large scale applications can't live without Memcached.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
