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Legend has it that when Orkut first started as a side project at Google, the servers were so overloaded and server latency was so high, the only users who weren
by cerol 4y ago
Legend has it that when Orkut first started as a side project at Google, the servers were so overloaded and server latency was so high, the only users who weren't bothered by that were those living in countries with already poor internet infrastructure. Which is why Orkut was really big in Brazil and India (which have both massive populations).
- Strom 4y agoI was a Orkut user with a good connection (Tier 1 ISP) and I can't say that I remember it being slow in general. There is some fuzzy memory of discussion boards loading slowly, but that was the case often for very popular phpBB and and vBulletin boards of the time.
- elros 4y agoBad, bad server. No donut for you!
- uranium 4y agoDunno if that's true, but the terrible performance was because it was running off a single box under Orkut's desk. He threw together a prototype in asp.net and launched it, with zero preparation for scaling. It took quite a bit of help from an experienced engineer just to get it split into pieces so that it could run on 2 machines. A big reason that Orkut fell behind other competitors was that it needed so much work to port it to a scalable architecture while scaling up exponentially.
- MichaelMoser123 4y agoasp.net at google? Did it run on windows machines?
- uranium 4y agoYup.
- MichaelMoser123 4y agowow! that would have been very different to their main tools....