Flickr is one of the promising enteprise. Flickr uses PHP extensively and its architecture has been made public recently by Carl Handerson. Niall Kennedy recently posted the PDF version of carl's presentation, available here. Niall also points out some interesting statistics on Flickr as of September 2004:
About 60,000 lines of PHP code.
About 60,000 lines of templates.
About 25,000 database transactions per second at peak.
13 selects per insert/update/delete.
About 1,000 pages per second at peak.
They use Java for their node service and as a FTP daemon.
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