[orf]

"Responsible 20% of the entire us internet traffic? Solved problem mate, i could do it on a single machine with mongodb. Overengineered!"

[user5994461]

Forget about the joke for a minute and let's be realistic.

It is entirely possible and reasonable to prototype a streaming service serving 20% of the us traffic with a single machine and mongodb.

Well, a single machine, mongodb AND akamai.

[orf]

Well of course, mongodb is web scale don't ya know

[user5994461]

MongoDB is shit. No need to use it.

What's important is really the distribution and caching layer, and Akamai has been offering that for a very long time for all the big internet companies.

[paulddraper]

Prove it.

[rhizome]

Just think how much more they could do if they stopped using MySQL. /s