Large Scale Web Apps Built on Open Source

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Posted by michael on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @07:31AM 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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/. effect by mreed911 · 2004-09-21 07:37 · Score: 2, Funny

LiveJournal? Not anymore...
Typical Livejournal by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 07:37 · Score: 5, Funny

OMG! Today I had CEREAL!!!!!

With MILK!!!! OMG!!
1. Re:Typical Livejournal by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 07:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  How true
  
  From link --
  speakin of french and korea did u no they both opposed the war in iraq? 1 is a comunist country and the othr is a no-fight-anytime country. mabye there in this 2gethr to squash the american gold medals an make ppl think there strong! HEY KOREA WE BLEW U UP IN WW2 W/ TEH ATOM BOMB WE'LL DO IT AGAIN. an french ppl suck.
2. Re:Typical Livejournal by seanmeister · 2004-09-21 07:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Brad Fitzpatrick apparently agrees with your take on LJ, judging from the sample user data shown on page 24 of the presentation:
  
  OMG i like totally hate my parents they just dont understand me and i h8 the world omg lol rofl *! :^- ^^; add me as a friend!!!
3. Re:Typical Livejournal by MC+Negro · 2004-09-21 08:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Haha. This part got me here --
  
  without a doubt Jesus would've been the best president ever. When he was only 12 years old he went to the temple to preach to the Jews and was just amazing everyone. Think how much better the U.S.A. would be if Bill Clinton wasn't Bill Clinto but instead was Jesus? Do you think we'd be fighting a way? NO!! We'd all be loving each other because thats what Jesus was about! LOVE! There isn't enough love in the world! Jesus would also be great because hes not only the son of god, HES A PRINCE OF PEACE!!! Hed probably do things differently. Even George W Bush could learn from Jesus (and thats why George W Bush is a christian and we need to keep him in office!!)
  
  LiveJournal -- Convincing teenage girls that someone cares about what they have to say since 1999.
  
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  "You and your third dimension."
Re:lamp! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 07:38 · Score: 1, Funny

Yes. I came to /. when it was all dark and gloomy. I had never seen such darkness outside before. Having a lamp definitely helped. It let me meander through the maze of twisted posts, all alike. I would have been lost had it not been for the lamp. Thanks lamp. Thanks for showing me the light.
.sxi format? by numbski · 2004-09-21 07:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Anyone know what that document format is since it's roughly half the size of the pdf?

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1. Re:.sxi format? by xtermz · 2004-09-21 09:27 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  What are you a Office luser ?
  
  translation: "what, do you have a job? I wish I was part of the corporate world. Better get back to checking the classifieds..."
  
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  I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
Re:lamp! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 07:42 · Score: 1, Funny

Without a lamp you may have been eaten by a grue too.
opensource sxi? by AssProphet · 2004-09-21 07:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Why is there a password on this sxi file (star office presentation)... is the file not open source?
Livejournal Images by tinla · 2004-09-21 07:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Ok, so most of the Journals lack even a scrap of entertainment value... but the data feeds are normally fun. Is there anyone left that hasn't wasted a few bytes on the following url?

http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-img.bml

Hint - its a constantly updating list of all the new images posted to journals. After a while you give up waiting for a hot chick to post and decide crazy survey graphics are as good as it gets. And then some hot chick posts her birthday party pictures, but she's only 14 and suddenly you wish you'd spent the day doing something else.

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Re:Salesforce.com by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 08:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Hypothetically, if Microsoft ported IIS to Linux, could you actually then run LIMP?
Re:Porn by ari_j · 2004-09-21 08:17 · Score: 2, Funny

It was all FreeBSD, a little Redhat...
So, it wasn't all FreeBSD.
Server timed out by WreckDiver · 2004-09-21 08:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Not large enough scale to survive a Slashdotting...
Re:Get a clue by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 08:29 · Score: 1, Funny

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.

*Cough* amazon.com. *Cough* ticketmaster.com.
Re:Porn by dmayle · 2004-09-21 08:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Porn (Score:4, Interesting)

I worked at a huge (now defunct) porn site.

The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the interesting mod is about working for a porn site, and has nothing to do with the hardware or software (for those who even read that far... ;)
WARNING!!! Goat Link!!! by mccrew · 2004-09-21 08:33 · Score: 1, Funny

OMG! He's got a goat link right on the front page.

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Kenny by Trejkaz · 2004-09-21 11:02 · Score: 4, Funny

It's somewhat amusing that in the first load balancing example, one of the points of failure was Kenny. Especially since Kenny ALWAYS DIES.

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Re:Salesforce.com by Citizen+Gold · 2004-09-21 11:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Why not? You can already run on WIMP.
Re:Salesforce.com by starling · 2004-09-21 11:31 · Score: 3, Funny

...leveraging...integrated...client/service architecture...enterprise-class...industry leading..

BINGO!!!