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Serving billions of pages a day is not a particularly hard scaling problem if most of those page views only require reads. It's writes, and particularly transa
by kscaldef 17y ago
Serving billions of pages a day is not a particularly hard scaling problem if most of those page views only require reads. It's writes, and particularly transactional updates, that are hard.
- drusenko 17y agoyes, but even harder are the entire set of problems where the data is extremely interrelated, like Facebook's is -- making it very difficult to shard effectively.