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Re:Revisiting 1M Writes per second by rdtsc on Friday July 25, 2014 @04:38PM (#8087517)
My other favorite "scalability" study is from WhatsApp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs

That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

(that walk title was create before the acquisition and was mean to imply message count, after the acquisition it got a secondary meaning).

The one thing that is fascinating about it, is how small their team was compared to the volume and complexity of the operation.

Re:Revisiting 1M Writes per second by dav- on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:33AM (#8089686)
The thought of even touching systems at such scales terrifies me.
Re:Revisiting 1M Writes per second by rdtsc on Saturday July 26, 2014 @01:45PM (#8090250)
Agreed. Someone asked once how to you simulate load like that to test and he answered "we can't" we try to do gradual deployment and rolling upgrades.