13 October 2008 @ 7:37Gravatar/Automattic anniversary

One year after Automattic acquired Gravatar, a lot has changed. Gravatar migrated from Ruby-on-Rails to PHP, now allows up to 512px avatars, and resides on about 20 servers. 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server. What is Gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is [...]
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