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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. Re:Get a clue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a pervasive belief among the suddenly famous. IBM, MS, or Sun doesn't need this. It's the small website with a bright idea that is all of a sudden gaining popularity which goes through almost each of the stages described in this document.

    This is for people with absolutely no budget and infinite traffic. This is how to live through that and come out winning like Brad apparently has.