If you are having sleepless nights about scaling your website to take on a 3x/10x/100X loadburst in a short time, here’s a resource that many will be willing to pay a king’s ransom for. These are a bunch of presentations about some of the biggest websites in the world and their scalability stories (I call them stories because each case is a unique narrative, much like a grandma’s story). Slideshare has a “Webapp Scalability” group and this contains an awesome collection of presentations from websites like Digg, Flickr, LiveJournal, FeedBurner, SixApart, Last.fm etc. As I wrote in this previous post, scalability is experiential in nature and there’s nothing like learning from what others are doing. One might be tempted into thinking that this is plagiarism with a sugar coating; but I beg to differ on this; a very big part of innovation is “imitation” and as long as you are proving to be a net addition to the body of existing knowledge, there is no harm in this.
One of the great things about mature ecosystems (like Silicon Valley) is that, there is so much cross pollination happening because of people meeting at talks, conferences etc.
I really yearn for something like this in India, where people are not scared of sharing their learnings with the community. Cynical as I may sound, I do not see this happening at all in India (inspite of all the unconferences etc). I guess this requires a shift in mindset, which is going to take some time.
Check out the collection here
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Thanks for this Amit. I was wondering, if we could ask you some questions ourselves. We are 22, and as you would imagine have tons of questions on building our startup and not too many people we could turn to for advice.
Regards,
Ravi
i agree with you completely Amit. Infact had written about this unique phenomenon in my blog as well.
We are very wary of sharing our knowledge with other people – very few people exchange ideas apart from exchanging visiting cards – also people feel shy of asking for help amongst a peer group.
This should change if we have to grow.
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Thanks Amit.
I came across this website which has some really impressive stories about scalability
http://highscalability.com/
i always use feedburner to syndicate my blog posts to other subscribers.”:`