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gizzlon on Aug 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Story of how MySpace scaled [2007]

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"

sjwright on Aug 23, 2011 [–]

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

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