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Handling Flash Crowds From Your Garage

Posted by kdawson on from the to-scale-or-not-to-scale dept.

slashdotmsiriv writes "This paper from Microsoft Research describes the issues and tradeoffs a typical garage innovator encounters when building low-cost, scalable Internet services. The paper is a more formal analysis of the problems encountered and solutions employed a few months back when Animoto, with its new Facebook app, had to scale by a factor of 10 in 3 days. In addition, the article offers an overview of the current state of utility computing (S3, EC2, etc.) and of the most common strategies for building scalable Internet services."

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  1. Not Flash Mobs? by penguin+king · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here I was picturing a bunch of people showing up in your garage for seemingly no reason. Still interesting to see how they handled the massive increase!

    1. Re:Not Flash Mobs? by RuBLed · · Score: 3, Funny

      And here I was thinking that it was about handling a crowd flashing for you in front of your garage...

    2. Re:Not Flash Mobs? by ericvids · · Score: 4, Funny

      Question: So how DO you handle flash crowds?

      MS Answer: We don't. We'll force them to install Silverlight.

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    3. Re:Not Flash Mobs? by houghi · · Score: 3, Funny

      And here I was thinking that it was about handling a crowd flashing for you in front of your garage...

      You must be non-American, because in Soviet America you flash the crowd.

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  2. Great. by ericvids · · Score: 5, Funny

    A paper on how to avoid slashdotting, posted on slashdot. /me clicks obsessively on links

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