Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
Always interesting to read about real-world usage of different tools and languages.<p>From the article: 
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•  MySQL (plus sharding) scales, apps don't. 
•  Redis is amazing. 
•  Scala apps perform fantastically.
...<p>Some of the organizations (Including Tumblr) using Scala were discussed as part of this talk:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQNqIy5LdM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQNqIy5LdM</a>
and slides here:
<a href="http://mrkn.co/s/video_martin_odersky_what_s_next_for_scala,575/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://mrkn.co/s/video_martin_odersky_what_s_next_for_scala,...</a>