Myspace Presentation
If you look 27 minutes into this keynote you will see presentation from the myspace CTO.
http://sessions.mix06.com/view.asp?pid=KYN001
When they had 65 million users, 250 servers were used to just serve up the homepage.
Myspace had 45 .net developers, also some cool stuff on what they are going to do in vista and the .net Ajax framework
November 14, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Ajax will make the site more lame than it already is since they won’t use it in any kind of innovative way.
November 14, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Take server techies & management team in you have 200 people, take advertising you have 400….
My only question is what are all those 45 developers doing?? As the story goes, it took only ONE guy to code IN HIS SPARE TIME ENTIRE MySpace website (front end and back end)!!!
You dont need 45 techies to build a website, you need 45 techies to pach what 45 techies did, and patch on that what 90 techies did and patch on that what 180 did (then 360, then 720..) and every time you patch something you have to double the work needed X 2…
I mean this is a single website with pretty down to earth needs, its not some ROCKET TECH…
Ok, maby im wrong… but again ill try it on my self, and if i fail with 1MM subscribed users… then what the hell …. i will take the money and run, like original MySpace developers did
November 14, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Oh i forgot as usual to say that before that genious guy wrote v.2 of MySpace i took a bounch of hippies (3-5 guys) to write a pretty lame v.1.
There were Greenspan laments, and on the website (don’t know if it still exists) he talked about entire process of MySpace birth.
November 14, 2006 at 5:07 pm
They would be better off to start from scratch using ruby on rails, and this would force them to innovate, rather then just patch.
November 14, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Ruby on rails is a Joke when it comes to running a site that actually has traffic. Its like comparing classic ASP and Asp.net
November 14, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Agree with Markus,
Ruby is little baby for this
For something like MySpace you would need arround 1000 Ruby Boxen
Oh an if i were MySpace i would put those 45-and-counting dumbassess and develop C-core backend, well for what they are doing i would use Zeus web server(for them 100-200K$ is pennies), highil tuned embedded Linux boxes, and lots of code tuning (pardon me Markus, NO Vista B.S., NO C# B.S.) just pure fast code (if i were owner of MySpace and had over 40 developers i would make them to code core engine in Forth
and rest of the stuff in some humane language - Python maby - maby even C#… )
November 15, 2006 at 12:37 am
I met him at the conference - nice guy. I was surprised they were so happy with their huge and growing MS infrastructure but they seemed to be very pleased.
Markus you need to get out more dude! Hello from WebmasterWorld Las Vegas where YOU should be talking about Social networks!
November 15, 2006 at 4:05 am
Markus,
Are you ever going to move away from Adsense?
-Sean
http://www.RoofContractor.com
November 15, 2006 at 6:59 pm
It’s going to be many boxen regardless of the back end infrastrauture. Anyone know if there are any Xserve-based social sites? I bet a lot of the servers are for media serving, mainly gazillions of videos and jpeg’s.
November 16, 2006 at 11:24 pm
I’m not impressed. I saw that new editor of theirs a long time ago and if it took them this long to get it out then they’re in trouble. 150 servers is quite a bit. I’m sure they can knock it down even more if they optimize their code. Now its all errors and the site is pretty whacked.
November 21, 2006 at 12:20 am
“Anyone know if there are any Xserve-based social sites?”
SmugMug.com is saving $500k by selling its’ Xserve boxes and moving to S3 for storage: http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2006/11/10/amazon-s3-show-me-the-money/