On: Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

[makmanalp]

What does "web scale" mean? I see it thrown around a lot without much explanation.

[klochner → makmanalp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

[Luyt → klochner]

A transcript can be found at http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/

"Shards are the secret ingredient in the web scale sauce. They just work."

[Luyt → makmanalp]

I think it means that your web app can survive being slashdotted. So, a lightweight C10K-capable frontend, all static content on a CDN, everything heavily cached, database queries optimized to the hilt, etc... etc... Some people think that just using a NoSQL database is sufficient, but there's much more to it. Interesting talk on this stuff (was posted on HN earlier): http://ontwik.com/python/django-deployment-workshop-by-jacob...