Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Flickr architecture

via blackbeltjones/work Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Flickr architecture:

"Some interesting statistics on Flickr as of September 2004:

* About 60,000 lines of PHP code.
* About 60,000 lines of templates.
* About 25,000 database transactions per second at peak.
* 13 selects per insert/update/delete.
* About 1,000 pages per second at peak.
* They use Java for their node service and as a FTP daemon."