Monday, June 23, 2008

Scaling a Hyper-Growing Super App

Considering I'm a light user of Facebook, I know very little about how much some users actually utilize the application. But reading that 250K new users sign up for the a FB account per day, it would seem that scaling the application is a mammoth challenge.

How do you actually manage 10K servers, and thousands of DB instances? How do you synchronize the DB instances?

How you manage all of those sessions?

Nice problem to have. FB is more than a viral app; it's an epidemic of gynormous proportions.

Btw, if ya wanna connect, here's your invitation :)

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