There is a great talk by an (ex-) developer from Reddit about the technical background, scalability problems, caching, storing redundant data, queued offline co

There is a great talk by an (ex-) developer from Reddit about the technical background, scalability problems, caching, storing redundant data, queued offline computing etc. This might shed light on some questions in the comments here. http://thinkvitamin.com/dev/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learned-at-reddit/ http://thinkvitamin.com/dev/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learned...