Digg.com is the largest content aggregator on the Net, with 3.5 million registered users. Lead architect Joe Stump gave a peak behind the scenes of a system that handles about 15,000 requests per second and reports serving approximately 26 million unique visitors per month.
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Digg.com uses MySQL, but on top of that is a library designed to interact with the DBMS in a specialized manner. The way you normally scale things is to take a few different components, layer something on top of it that has your specialization stuff in it.
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