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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs


In My Scaling Hero, I described the amazing scaling story of plentyoffish.com. It's impressive by any measure, but also particularly relevant to us because we're on the Microsoft stack, too. I was intrigued when Markus posted this recent update:


Last monday we upgraded our core database server after a power outage knocked the site offline. I haven't

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