On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matt Rosin wrote:
One company mentioned their perl based large scale sns site at YAPC::Asia IIRC - sorry it might have been six apart as mentioned above, can't remember which. I do know they wrote their own system to be able to basically split and merge their user pool according to user name (alphabetical order) and splitting off to more servers when a given partition of the set got too full, which simplifies things.
That was Six Apart. Specifically, it was Brad Fitzpatrick talking about LiveJournal, I believe.
That sort of partitioning of data by some key (user id, domain, whatever) is one common strategy for handling super-huge systems.
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