This is a thin wrapper around a good, but two year old, High Scalability post: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/17/7-lessons-learned-while-building-reddi

This is a thin wrapper around a good, but two year old, High Scalability post: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/17/7-lessons-learned-while-building-reddit-to-270-million-page.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/17/7-lessons-learned-... which was discussed on HN recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467077 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467077 and on HN long ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354542 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354542 EDIT: Fixed "long ago" vs "recently". Thanks, sync.