09 July 2008
Here is a great article describing how Jim Meyer, Manager of Linked In's Light Engineering Development scaled his facebook application, Bumpersticker, to over 1 Billion page views per month.
In a nutshell, his three design guidlines are :
- Talking to spindles is bad - talking to file systems and databases has to be minimized
- Dynamic content is your enemy. Anything you can turn into static, including periodic re-caching should be removed.
- Push everything you possibly can to the client to reduce the amount of traffic going over the network no matter where the client is.
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