Tuesday, March 11th 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Chris Lea Media Temple
Joe Stump Lead Architect, Digg.com Inc
Cal Henderson Badass MC, Flickr
Matt Mullenweg Founding Dev, Automattic/WordPress
Kevin Rose Founder, Diggnation/Digg Inc
Who do you ask about this stuff?
When should you worry about scaling?
-it depends on the app
-it doesn’t really matter for some… just need to worry about a large traffic spike like getting dugg or slashdotted.
-flickr didn’t worry about it early on – they were more concerned about putting together a great app vs. spending the time to concentrate on scaling.
It is good to at the very least take some time to think about how be something could get and have a general idea in place vs. waiting till it is too late. Livejournal has good information on what they have done. Wikipedia’s approach is also available and open.
Netscaler: NOT needed
LVS works – commodity hardware plus OSS works well – Pounce load ballencer
Flickr serves 32k photos per second.