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Copy basic functionality perhaps.... I doubt the majority here could scale nearly as effectively as both of those companies have....
by ZoF 13y ago
Copy basic functionality perhaps.... I doubt the majority here could scale nearly as effectively as both of those companies have....
- mikeash 13y agoI don't know. Scaling as effectively as Twitter doesn't seem like a particularly high bar. They spent a year or so after they got big being down almost as much as they were up. The "fail whale" was just about the most common thing to see on twitter.com. Of course, now that Twitter is established, you cannot repeat their mistakes if you want to succeed.
- ZoF 13y agoRelevant[1] front-page discussion. [1]http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-twitter-uses-to-deal-with-150m-active-users.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...
- blueprint 13y agoPlus there's a degree of polish and stability that takes a few months to hit.
- nawitus 13y agoIs there a single example of a service which failed to scale? Once you have user growth, you can get investors to fund scaling regardless of the technology choices made the beginning.