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Re:Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? by benologist on Friday March 25, 2011 @06:41PM (#2370653)
Back when MySpace actually mattered I don't think they had HipHop, Cassandra etc.
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Re:Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? by nikcub on Friday March 25, 2011 @07:38PM (#2370815)
HipHop went live on FB last year. It didn't even go live everywhere at once.

For some reason ppl think Mark created it on the 3rd day

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Re:Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? by gcr on Saturday March 26, 2011 @02:59PM (#2372863)
It would be interesting to see how much load HipHop alleviated. I assumed it helped, but how much?
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Re:Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? by nikcub on Saturday March 26, 2011 @09:37PM (#2373819)
apparently it allowed them to not buy 70% of new servers at a time when they were growing crazy
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