On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
"Brion Vibber "Current events and traffic spikes". June 26, 2009 — Diary entry by the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation describing in detail the effects on the Wikimedia Foundation's web servers, which host both Wikipedia and Wikinews, of the news. (link currently broken)"
Link currently broken? Tsk.
It's from the techblog http://techblog.wikimedia.org/, but the WMF blogs are currently down due to some software issues unfortunately.