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The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars
- jmathai 13y agoI hope it goes without saying that Yahoo!'s architecture is orders of magnitude more robust, complicated and scalable than Tumblr's. [1] And of course they didn't "buy the architecture". They'll probably fold Tumblr into their own. [1] Nothing against Tumblr but Yahoo operates at a scale much larger than Tumblr so their architecture isn't of much use.
- moondowner 13y agoIt's not the first article on HighScalability named in the form of 'The service_name Architecture company_name Bought for a Cool some_amount Dollars' Nevertheless, it's really good to get an insight in these stuff and I like these articles from them.
- orangethirty 13y agoGiven how they say it will stay independent, why do you reason they will ot simply keep using their current stack?
- jmathai 13y agoEx-Yahoo. Yahoo has infrastructure for a bunch of things which are really beneficial. Abuse detection/prevention, internationalization into like 40 languages and a ton of scaling services - to name a few. Tumblr might not need them but Yahoo! might feel like they'd benefit from all of it. If I were the Tumblr team I wouldn't want to deal with the man hours to get onto Yahoo!'s platform but I'm not sure how much of a choice they have.