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This was the first architecture profile on HighScalability. IMHO LiveJournal was really the start of the openness on how to build stuff at scale, setting the whole industry off with an excellent role model. They wrote about their architecture, they open sourced their tools, they showed that success wasn't based on keeping secrets, and they set forth principles still followed by our rather amazing industry. No other industry is so open and cooperative, with their eyes cast so far forward, intent on building cool stuff. When all around seems dark it would be good to keep this little bit of light in mind...
A fascinating and detailed story of how LiveJournal evolved their system to scale. LiveJournal was an early player in the free blog service race and faced issues from quickly adding a large number of users. Blog posts come fast and furious which causes a lot of writes and writes are particularly hard to scale. Understanding how LiveJournal faced their scaling problems will help any aspiring website builder.
Site: http://www.livejournal.com/
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