Silverstripe behind the scenes at the DNC

Silverstripe is powering the Democratic National Convention website. The site has survived a maelstrom of traffic, peaking at well over 700 unique visitors per second, not to mention an additional slashdotting on top of all that. The secret to soaking up this storm is a unique caching system integrated into the Silverstripe CMS, pushing static HTML pages out onto a CDN, so that the PHP application servers are only fired up when the editors log in to manage content. Expect to see this caching pipeline land in the open source trunk very soon. Update: it is available now.

In the meantime, the media circus is reaching new levels of insanity and rhetoric. For Silverstripe this is a huge milestone, but it is just the beginning.