Nginx, SPDY, and Automattic
barry.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/nginx-spdy-and-automattic
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
At Automattic, we have used Nginx since 2008. Since then, it has made its way into almost every piece of our web infrastructure. We use it for load balancing, image serving (via MogileFS), serving static and dynamic web content, and caching. In fact, we have almost 1000 servers running Nginx today, serving over 100,000 requests per second.