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Or you bet wrong about the load they deal with. They may also have higher availability requirements than most companies and need 2X (more?) the infrastructure
by jbyers 15y ago
Or you bet wrong about the load they deal with.
They may also have higher availability requirements than most companies and need 2X (more?) the infrastructure to protect against a data collection failure.
They may be counting nodes used periodically, e.g. a large Hadoop map-reduce run.
Edit: don't get me wrong -- 200 servers is a lot. :)
- physcab 15y agoI wouldn't doubt it. But they also don't publish any figures so its difficult to confirm. I work for one of their competitors and we most likely have the same availability requirements... anyways, just curious. Here's where we're at, as a comparison http://bit.ly/qLrKOt http://bit.ly/qLrKOt edit: looks like they did publish some figures :) http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/mixpanel-billion-datapoints/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/mixpanel-billion-datapoints...