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Wikipedia Architecture - High Level View
The Wikipedia website began as a couple of LAMP servers. Brion described the wiki he chose and other details in the Swampcast interview Let's detail the original architecture here and then move in...
Tagged: vibber, performance, LAMP, swampcast, architecture
Started by Michael Levin Nov 2.
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