Velocity 09: Mandi Walls, "Migrating www.aol.com from a Proprietary Web Platform to Open Source"
At the beginning of 2008, AOL’s www.aol.com web farm was 283 identical hosts located in six datacenters serving content created on AOL’s aging, proprietary, shared publishing infrastructure. By the end of 2008, the legacy system had been replaced by a completely independent application stack comprised of a mix of internally-developed and Open Source components. We’ll...