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The evolving Guardian.co.uk architecture

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Summary

This presentation covers how to rapidly evolve a web site that receives over 25 million unique users and 218 million page impressions a month using a "just in time" approach to architecture. The site was guardian.uk with a long history of innovation that has enabled it to lead the market. The "just in time" approach to architecture introduced complexity into the architecture only as needed.

Bio

Matthew Wall is Software Architect at Guardian News & Media, specialising in developing large scale web applications in an Agile environment. His primary concern at the moment is the development of the next generation web platform for guardian.co.uk. He has given various talks on this and related subjects at JAOO, ServerSide, QCon, XTech and OpenTech.

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Aug 28, 2009

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