On: BBC iPlayer serves nearly 1000 requests per second...

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These stats are taken before the busiest period for the iPlayer (over Christmas) so I imagine they doubled the statistics for christmas day.

The BBC also created their own framework which they named Perl on Rails to adapt between Ruby on Rails which is used for their internal web apps and the perl code base of the main site. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.s...