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Just because Twitter and Digg don't operate at the same scale as Facebook doesn't mean they don't face similar issues. I actually think having a bunch of large
by mikeryan 17y ago
Just because Twitter and Digg don't operate at the same scale as Facebook doesn't mean they don't face similar issues.
I actually think having a bunch of large sites tackling similar issues will present a whole bunch of neat new technologies for addressing these sorts of issues in the near future.
- dasil003 17y agoI'm not talking about absolute scale. Facebook is small compared to Google scale, but in my (probably poorly) informed opinion it's not as impressive. All these sites have scaled to multiple servers, which means they've all had to address some of the hard problems, and no doubt that many of the issues are very similar. However even if Facebook's traffic were half of Twitter's it would still be a much more impressive architecture. They support a full-on integrated development platform for crying out loud. That is orders of magnitude more impressive than Twitter's lightweight API whether they're serving 100 or 100,000 requests per second. I'm not dissing Twitter either, it's just that what Facebook has going is pretty incredible. Consider that failing to scale is basically what killed Friendster.
- mikeryan 17y agoI understand what you're saying Facebook is massively complex compared to digg and twitter - which is likely why it chews up the majority of the article. But I'm not sure why you can't have a top level discussion about scaling (which seems to be the point of the article) that is relevant to all three.
- dasil003 17y agookay fair point.
- pavs 17y ago"However even if Facebook's traffic were half of Twitter's" Huh?
- dasil003 17y ago"only half"