Delicious: Proof that Symfony is a scalable framework
Back almost a year ago, top social bookmarking site del.icio.us, now just delicious, launched a preview of its version 2.0. At the time they announced it was built on the Symfony PHP framework, what I used for W3Counter. With almost a year going by, and rumors of scaling issues, I worried that perhaps Symfony wasn’t really ready for such a massively popular service.
Yesterday I got confirmation from one of delicious’s engineers that the recently released new site was indeed built on Symfony. That’s great news for the framework, which was already used to create Yahoo! Bookmarks, proving it’s enterprise-ready and able to scale up to millions of active users. Watch the delicious blog for a promised update on “what we learned and how we made certain decisions”.
don’t forget that Yahoo! Answers got rewritten with Symfony last year.