Shanti’s Dispatches

There’s an awesome rails scalability case study up at HighScalability.com:

In a short three months Friends for Sale (think Hot-or-Not with a market economy) grew to become a top 10 Facebook application handling 200 gorgeous requests per second and a stunning 300 million page views a month. They did all this using Ruby on Rails, two part time developers, a cluster of a dozen machines, and a fairly standard architecture. How did Friends for Sale scale to sell all those beautiful people? And how much do you think your friends are worth on the open market?

Friends for Sale App on Facebook. I hope there’s still room in the marketplace of ideas for new breakout Facebook apps. I’ll be trying my hand at some soon.

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