Product
Appliances that: * Ensures Non-Stop application availability * Improves network and server maintainability * Delivers Enterprise-grade gigabit content switching * Offers true Application Acceleration * Provides maximum throughput at minimal cost
Example
FeedBurner is a news feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Services provided to publishers include traffic analysis and an optional advertising system. Site: http://www.feedburner.com Information Sources FeedBurner - Scalable Web Applications
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Friendster is one of the largest social network sites on the web. it emphasizes genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Site: http://www.friendster.com/ Information Sources Friendster - Scaling for 1 Billion Queries per day Platform MySQL Perl PHP Linux Apache What's Inside?
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Mixi is a fast growing social networking site in Japan. They provide services like: diary, community, message, review, and photo album. Having a lot in common with LiveJournal they also developed many of the same approaches. Their write up on how they scaled their system is easily one of the
Future Event
If MySQL, PostgreSQL or EnterpriseDB High-Availability and Scalability issues are on your plate, you'll find this webcast very informative. Highly recommended! Webcast starts on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 10:00AM PDT (1:00PM EDT, 18:00GMT). Duration: 50 minutes, plus Q&A Advanced Database High-Availability and
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A fascinating and detailed story of how LiveJournal evolved their system to scale. LiveJournal was an early player in the free blog service race and faced issues from quickly adding a large number of users. Blog posts come fast and furious which causes a lot of writes and writes are
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