Automattic is migrating 500 million Tumblr sites to run on WordPress
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Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, discusses the technical integration of Tumblr into WordPress's backend infrastructure.
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“Actually we're in the process right now of migrating the half a billion Tumblr sites to WordPress. Probably one of the largest data migrations.”
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