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Cool, i remember these days as well. Indeed it very much looked like StudiVZ just used FBs css filed and changed some colors.. It was a typical german clone suc
by kayoone 13y ago
Cool, i remember these days as well. Indeed it very much looked like StudiVZ just used FBs css filed and changed some colors.. It was a typical german clone success story. Dariani did a lot of questionable things but sold in the right time before the downfall of VZ.
I didnt really like it, they basically did nothing in terms of innovation that FB did, it had the same features for years. Later they had a half-assed app platform that never really took off. It was just a blatant rip-off like so many german startups, sadly.
- nilsjuenemann 13y agoWe had to solve scaling issues most of the time. VZ was running on a multi-tier platform with services written in Java, PHP, Erlang, C++ and Python. 17 million users with around 25 billion requests per month (without static content)... Some numbers from 2010: - 60.000 req/s (without static content) - 2.5 mio. memcache ops/s - 300k queries to the database tier We've built that platform with a team of around 20-30 engineers and we had to solve the scaling stuff first - before we could add new features to the platform. Today it's easy to store 3 billion files (photos). You could easily use S3, but 2007 these services didn't exist or most of the cloud services just started with their services.
- hazelnut 13y agoI think Facebook had the same problems. Maybe a bit bigger ;)
- nilsjuenemann 13y agoExcactly. But you can't compete if don't have enough (and the best) people and enough budget for recruiting.