Recorded Webinar: Glam Media Discusses Memcached and MySQL for Rapidly Scaling High Traffic Websites
Date:Thursday, November 12, 2009, 10AM PST
Glam Media was the 2nd fastest growing US-based web property in 2008 and continues to increase its unique visitor count by over 100% annually. MySQL has proven itself to be a critical piece of infrastructure to Glam's success in supporting nearly half a billion hits per day. In this webinar we will discuss how Glam also leverages Memcached to alleviate MySQL database load and scale their site to handle over 115 million unique visitors a month. Glam will lay out the evolution of their web architecture, starting as a MySQL driven database website, to implementing Memcached to scale and increase performance, and finally implementing Gear6's extended Memcached features to increase efficiency, reliability, and manageability of their Memcached tier. Also, covered will be insight into how large dynamic websites like Glam Media are planning ahead for future growth.
- Featuring:
- Raj Narayan, Director of Operations – Glam Media
- Bill Takacs, Product Manager – Gear6
- Jimmy Guerrero, Sr Product Marketing Manager - Sun Microsystems
Focus: Glam Media Discusses Memcached and MySQL for Rapidly Scaling High Traffic Websites web presentation.
