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You can scale monoliths. Twitter did it until it could retool (remember the more-or-less daily fail whale?) Disqus & Pinterest scaled django to more users tha
by GiorgioG 9y ago
You can scale monoliths. Twitter did it until it could retool (remember the more-or-less daily fail whale?) Disqus & Pinterest scaled django to more users than most of us will ever have.
https://blog.disqus.com/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views https://blog.disqus.com/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-vie...
- scarface74 9y agoTwitter is the perfect counter example of how to build for scaleability. Not only becUse of the fail whale you mentioned, but Twitter is still a bloated mess of an organization.