Building the MySpace backend

Re:Building the MySpace backend by speakbin on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @11:33PM (#2655866)

Ok, but wasn't MySpace in ColdFusion? I don't know if they had anything today that is scalable on their backend.

Was NoSQL around back then? They're right about the custom hacking that is required and that Facebook does (i.e. MySQL).

Good web technologies existed at the time. They may have not had Rails or Django but servlets were certainly an option.

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Re:Building the MySpace backend by mikeryan on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:27AM (#2655975)

Ok, but wasn't MySpace in ColdFusion?

That's like saying Facebook is PHP or Twitter is Rails. Sure it started that way but when the shit hit the fan they probably went heavy and deep into lower level languages working much closer to the metal to solve the problems they were having.

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Re:Building the MySpace backend by rmason on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:22AM (#2655965)

He stated they had a third of the number of servers as Facebook back when the two were roughly equal. They were running on the older pre-java based ColdFusion 5. I'd say they scaled pretty well regardless of your opinion of the service.

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Re:Building the MySpace backend by kenjackson on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:34AM (#2655990)

They moved to ASP.NET in 2005 and used SQL Server. See http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Projects-Networks-and-Storage...

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