Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App - High Scalability -

Update: Jake in Does Django really scale better than Rails? thinks apps like FFS shouldn't need so much hardware to scale. In a short three months Friends for Sale (think Hot-or-Not with a market economy) grew to become a top 10 Facebook application handling 200 gorgeous requests per second and a stunning 300 million page views a month. They did all this using Ruby on Rails, two part time develope

[soomin999]

Is RoR scalable?

[mlhshino]

To make a scalable rails app.

[teahut]

Friends for SaleというFacebookアプリケーション．200 rpsをrailsで捌いている．memcached, mysql (master/slave), starlingなど．partitioningにmagic multi-connectionというのを使っている? サーバは4 DB, 6 App, 1 starling, 1 front. その他，多くの情報あり．

[lizy]

秒間200リクエストを処理するRailsシステムの紹介｜「2 part time (now full time), and 1 remote DBA」たった3人なのか