This document discusses high performance for WordPress. It provides information about Barry Abrahamson from Automattic and details about WordPress.com, which has over 13.5 million sites and 16 million users. It then discusses what performance means in terms of speed and scaling to serve many concurrent requests. Both client-side and server-side performance are examined, outlining techniques and tools to improve each. Real-world examples from WordPress.com show benefits from approaches like APC caching and HipHop. The document concludes with tips on improving performance as a user, sysadmin, developer, and scaling WordPress sites.