[Catalyst] Hypothetical Site and Scalability Planning

[Dave Rolsky]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matt Rosin wrote:

> One company mentioned their perl based large scale sns site at YAPC::Asia
> IIRC - sorry it might have been six apart as mentioned above, can't remember
> which. I do know they wrote their own system to be able to basically split
> and merge their user pool according to user name (alphabetical order) and
> splitting off to more servers when a given partition of the set got too
> full, which simplifies things.

That was Six Apart. Specifically, it was Brad Fitzpatrick talking about 
LiveJournal, I believe.

That sort of partitioning of data by some key (user id, domain, whatever) 
is one common strategy for handling super-huge systems.


-dave

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