车东@豆瓣评论: IT不再重要
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春节回家，很多朋友在再说类似的话：“哥们我现在不做IT（互联网）了，在做一门小生意”。虽然大部分的事情还需要在网上做，但在线技术本身已经不是生意的主要卖点和核心了；随着近几年的技术发展，的确使得很多IT技术都变得越来越便宜和标准化。外包，租用逐步在成为创业者主要手段，以前创立一个互联网公司，需要的技术会相对复杂，现在也逐步有了更多轻量级的解决方案，从免费的邮箱到服务器租用。免费服务和租用变得越来越主...

Joe Stump, Lead Architect at Digg, gave this presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo. I couldn't find the actual presentation, but fortunately Kris Jordan took some great notes. That's how key moments in history are accidentally captured forever. Joe was also kind enough to respond to my email questions with a phone call.

In this first part of the post Joe shares some timeless wisdom that you may or may not have read before. I of course take some pains to extract all the wit from the original presentation in favor of simple rules. What really struck me however was how Joe thought MemcacheDB Will be the biggest new kid on the block in scaling. MemcacheDB has been around for a little while and I've never thought of it in that way. Well learn why Joe is so excited by MemcacheDB at the end of the post.

Impressive Stats

80th-100th largest site in the world

26 million uniques a month

30 million users.

Uniques are only half that traffic. Traffic = unique web visitors + APIs + Digg buttons.

2 billion requests a month

13,000 requests a second, peak at 27,000 requests a second.

3 Sys Admins, 2 DBAs, 1 Network Admin, 15 coders, QA team

Lots of servers.

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