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STRUCTURE 08: Harnessing Explosive Growth

Posted on June 25, 2008

OK, so this is the sexy panel. We have tech people from some of the biggest web sites out there telling us about how they scale their sites.Jeremiah Robison, Slide Sandy Jen, MeeboJonathan Heiliger, FacebookAkash Garg, hi5 NetworksRaj Patel, Yahoo!James Barrese, eBayAlistair: How much of scalability is architecture, and how much is throwing servers at the problem?Heiliger, Facebook: The cheapest way to scale is adding servers, but over time the product is really what drives the infrastructure, so if the product is bad that s going to cause you to have problems that are hard to engineer your ...

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