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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Youll learn how they pioneered the use of a lot of open source tools at new levels of scale, and even created quite a few more, that are essential scaling aids. Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

In that system, the first time you loaded a script to handle a page, the whole script (as well as associated data) were kept resident in memory. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it.

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