Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 30, 2012

Choosy Mothers Choose HighScalability:

Quotable quotes:
- @itarradellas: “Revolutions in science have often been preceded by revolutions in measurement”
- @jasongorman: Use dependency injection, not Spring. Use event-driven, asynchronous I/O, not Node.js. Use MVC, not http://ASP.NET MVC etc etc
- @bernardgolden: #netflix uses most aggressive #aws reservation system. Gets pricing down to ~ 33% of “list’ pricing.
- @ikarzali: Hey, for all facebook’s talk at scalability conferences, I have to say Timeline is super slow(!) Howz that memcache workin out for you now?
How OMGPOP scaled to 36 million users in three weeks. Draw Something has been downloaded 35+ million times; 1 billion pictures created at 3,000 pictures per second; Couchbase is used as the database; SoftLayer is their cloud providing tens of nodes for tens of thousands of operations per second; no downtime; $200 million acquisition after 7 weeks.
Chris Dixon got it 2/3rds right with Give away the diagnostic, sell the remedy. The most profitable part was missing: create the problem for which you give away a diagnostic that detects the problem for which you sell the remedy.