Handling Flash Crowds From Your Garage

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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The method:

[Ethanol-fueled]

1) Ride on myspace or facebook's coattails
2) ???
3) Profit!

How to handle Flash Crowds?

[Rik Sweeney]

Easy, Flashblock