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The Story of how MySpace scaled [2007] (mobile.baselinemag.com)
42 points by a4agarwal 5412 days ago
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Wtf moment: "when it reached 17 million accounts, in the spring of 2005 MySpace added a caching tier-a layer of servers placed between the Web servers and the database servers"
TRWTF: "But in the end, I think we ended up doing more right than we did wrong."