Wikipedia runs one of the worlds largest websites on an extremely tight budget. While Wikia uses the same software as Wikipedia, MediaWiki, we have also closely followed their path to efficiently run a large website. The talk will be about examples and lessons learnt, as well as the changes and improvements that Wikia has done to work with a more dynamic service.

Monitoring large complex systems
How to find inefficiencies and fix them
Loadbalancing
Caching (backend and frontend)
Automation
Multiple datacenters / end user loading times
Database handling
Logging and analysis