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Large Scale Web Apps Built on Open Source

Posted by michael on from the running-out-of-south-park-characters dept.

prostoalex writes "Brad Fitzpatrick presented at OSCON with on overview of his little project. Interesting facts about the evolution of the Livejournal back-end architecture."

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  1. Get a clue by hexghost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Reading this provided a laugh, until I realized its a pervasive belief among the world. At what point does a person think, gee i've already got 5 servers running my site, adding more doesn't really seem to improve much; perhaps its time to write the site better?

    It just goes to show that this person knew little about web site development and architecture - if they did they wouldn't have gone to this point. It also goes to show the failure of the technologies. Give it up slashdot crowd. mod_perl is not a valid technology for a large scale website! Perl was designed for a task, and that task was NOT enterprise application development.

    A properly designed website with n-tier sepperation will be able to handle a large load and scale infinitly. You'll note that large websites who actually do real things besides logging people's daily problems don't use mod_perl and a thousand servers. There's a reason for this.