There seems to be a general consensus in the world of startups that you should build an MVP (minimum viable product) without caring too…

With thousands of commits a week across hundreds of thousands of files, Facebook's main source repository is enormous--many times larger than even the Linux kernel, which checked in at 17 million lines of code and 44,000 files in 2013. Given our size and…

Multitenancy was the single-biggest technology breakthrough in SaaS. It not only allowed for higher gross margins, it made it viable to serve small and medium businesses with world-class…

After 8 years of working on high-volume web sites, I’ve seen a lot of interesting scaling techniques. While it’s true that very specific…

The growing number of Netflix subscribers -- nearing 85 million at the time of this Node.js Interactive talk -- has generated a number of scaling challenges for the company. In his talk, Yunong Xiao, Principal Software Engineer at Netflix, describes these…