6 Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way

A few years ago, my bosses came to me and said “We’ve got a new project for you. It’s the relaunch of a website that has already 1 million users a month. You have to build the website and make sure we’ll be able to grow afterwards”. I was already an experienced coder, but not in these dimensions, so I had to start learning how to scale – the hard way. via High Scalability - High Scalability - 6 Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way.