Om is talking about Web 2.0 scalability :
I think most start-ups actually don’t take that into account, and pay the price as they grow really big really fast. Early hiccups at TypePad were a case in point. Having had the financial resources, Six Apart has largely overcome those problems. Others, are not thinking along those lines, because we are in the early stages of what might be a bubble…
I couldn’t agree more. I literally spent all my time while at Rojo working on scalability. It’s a bit of a black art. Now that more Open Source tools are available people understand how to scale this stuff better and at least don’t have to build this stuff in-house.
I blogged about this a few months ago in my The Future is in Clusters post:
1. All future startups/technologies will be built on scalable clustering technology (or they will fail).
2. All existing Open Source falls short. Most existing databases (MySQL) and filesystems (XFS, ReiserFS, etC) are centralized (more on this later).
-
Spinn3r News- Spinn3r Hiring Five new Engineers (and growing rapidly)
- Spinn3r Hiring Support Engineer
- NYTimes, on Memetracker, and Spinn3r
- Spinn3r at Real Time Stream Crunchup, RSS Speedups, and Startup Discounts
- Spinn3r Hiring Crawl Engineer
- Spinn3r 3.1 - Now with Twitter Support and Social Media Ranking
- Blogfa.com (Iranian Blog Network) Down Due to Iranian Protests and Civil Unrest?
- Papers using Spinn3r Data from ICWSM 2009
- Spinn3r talk from ICWSM 2009
- Spinn3r 3.0: New Features, New Architecture, New APIs - More Goodness
Subscribe
-
Flickr
More Photos
One Reply
Scalability matters
Kevin Burton over at Feed Blog has some great thoughts regarding scalability for web 2.0 companies in response to Om Maliks quote:
I think most start-ups actually don’t take that into account, and pay the price as they grow really big really fast. …