Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand

Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by pdw on Sunday September 05, 2010 @12:17PM (#1664707)

You might want to read aboout how web infrastructure works at the BBC: http://iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-fail...

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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by mst on Monday September 06, 2010 @04:39PM (#1667379)

I'd point out that the "perl+SSI" codebase was actually mod_perl, Catalyst, DBIx::Class etc. using SSI as a sort of primitive ESI replacement to ease caching of partial pages.

The strange politics that led to the perl on rails monstrosity apparently aren't universal.

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