Booming traffic demands put a
constant stress on the social network’s computing infrastructure. A great article about how MySpace developers redesigned the website, database and storage systems to handle the exploding growth. A great read.
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The key thing that came through to me in that article was that the MySpace developers had absolutely no idea how to deal with high loads, since (like most developers) they’d never had any experience. ColdFusion??? SQL Server??? ColdFusion has never been intended to be high performance, and SQL Server still doesn’t scale as well as other RDBMS products (Microsoft’s marketing claims notwithstanding).
Bringing in some outside expertise could have saved them a lot of time and money — and saved MySpace users a lot of grief.