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
