Divide And Multiply

06th February 2008 | Category: Technical

Not to start throwing numbers around, but with over 1,000,000 page views last month, we felt it time to further decentralize our infrastructure. Unlike the big buzzword of the day, viral growth, our server infrastructure growth feels more bacterial. As one system is scaled vertically to the breaking point, it is scaled horizontally until it must divide again.

We feel very comfortable with this scaling methodology and are completely confident dividing a cell during business hours without disrupting the main website. That is exactly what we did today.

Once the system is completely decentralized, we can start throwing servers at it and see an almost immediate benefit throughout. Google sure knew what they were doing with MapReduce.

E. Coli
Good ol’ E. Coli