February 2012
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To give you an idea of Tumblr's massive scale,...
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500 million page views go through Tumblr every single day
40k requests added each second at Tumblr’s peak usage hours; and it’s growing, too
50GB of posts added each day; follower list updates are roughly another 2.7 terabytes daily
1M number of writes made through the dashboard each second, and 50,000 reads per second source
» It’s tough to scale, too: According to Blake...
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