The Story of how MySpace scaled [2007] (opens in new tab)

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42 pointsa4agarwal14y ago2 comments

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Wtf moment: "when it reached 17 million accounts, in the spring of 2005 MySpace added a caching tier-a layer of servers placed between the Web servers and the database servers"

sjwright14y ago

TRWTF: "But in the end, I think we ended up doing more right than we did wrong."

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The Story of how MySpace scaled [2007] (opens in new tab)

(mobile.baselinemag.com)

42 pointsa4agarwal14y ago2 comments

2 comments

gizzlon14y ago

Wtf moment: "when it reached 17 million accounts, in the spring of 2005 MySpace added a caching tier-a layer of servers placed between the Web servers and the database servers"

sjwright14y ago

TRWTF: "But in the end, I think we ended up doing more right than we did wrong."

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse