Wtf moment: "when it reached 17 million accounts, in the spring of 2005 MySpace added a caching tier-a layer of servers placed between the Web servers and the database servers"
I interviewed an early MySpace dev a few years ago. He said they had a services team from Microsoft in full-time to help with scaling. Once the growth spike kicks in, it seems important to up the ante on technical hiring in order to control one's own destiny.
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