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LiveJournal's Backend Technologies
Hear the history and
lessons learned while scaling a community site (LiveJournal.com) from a
single server with a dozen friends to hundreds of machines and 10M+
users: what's worked, what hasn't, and all the things we've had to build
ourselves that are now in common use thoughout the Web 2.0 world,
including memcached, MogileFS, Perlbal, and our job dispatch systems.
Brad Fitzpatrick
created LiveJournal in 1999 and grew the company throughout and after
college, later selling it to SixApart, creators of TypePad, MovableType,
and Vox. The open souce infrastructure software created to keep
LiveJournal alive throughout the years is now popular within the Web 2.0
world. Brad is also responsible for creating OpenID, originally
designed for interop among SixApart Web sites.
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author = {Brad Fitzpatrick},
title = {{LiveJournal{\textquoteright}s} Backend Technologies},
year = {2007},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}