Tag: Scalability

"Scale breaks everything. Scale even breaks your assumptions about how best to store and query data. Scale does not care about your personal engineering preferences, or about SQL vs. NoSQL."

Scale horizontally, move fast, change incrementally, measure everything, small and independent teams, control and responsibility.

Crash Often, Separation of Services, Open Schema, Keep it Stateless, Memcache,

Store Redundant Data and Work Offline.

Presentation Summary "High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook".

Social networking sites like Facebook, Digg, and Twitter are simply harder than traditional websites to scale. Why is that? Why would social networking sites be any more difficult to scale than traditional web sites? Let's find out.

Todd Hoff described Stack Overflow architecture focusing on platform and lessons learned.

Cal Henderson (Flickr architect) shared a great presentation about scalable web architectures common patterns.