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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. Astro Turf by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1, Troll

    Doesn't Microsoft employ "bloggers" to seed pro MS babble to Web sites like Slashdot? Just sayin' ...

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  2. SNOWED! by Frosty+Piss · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yes, but this is all the signs of a *very good* AstroTurf, so good, you don't even realise that this is what's going on. It's "positive" Microsoft PR, and that's what couts. Oh, and it's *even better* that they used Python. But in the end, it's still MS PR babble, and you all swallowed it HOOK LINE AND SINKER.

    Microsoft is learning... And learning good, they have the jaded Slashdot crowd SNOWED!

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