[Catalyst] Hypothetical Site and Scalability Planning

[Chris]

> For example how would you guys approach a project where you needed to create
> a site like a myspace.com or similar with 0 current users but could surpass
> 1 million users in 1 month then 100 million in 1 year.

Here's how ebay handle these sort of numbers:
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/dan-pritchett-ebay-architecture

They do some unexpected (to me) things to manage their data, with no
transactions and no referential integrity in the db in order to permit
scale across multiple dbs.

- Chris