Good HN thread on scaling a web app to 10K users

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this today on Hacker News:

What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users?

I read the thread. Found that it had a number of good comments, on both sides of the equation - the business side, i.e. acquiring, retaining and supporting users, and the technical side, i.e. scaling the hardware and software to manage the load on the app. Many of the people who commented, run their own web apps at the same or higher scale.

Overall, a worthwhile read, IMO.

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PDF book: High Performance Python tutorial by Ian Ozsvald

By Vasudev Ram

Just saw this via a chain of links:

High Performance Python tutorial by Ian Ozsvald. He gave it as a talk at EuroPython 2011. It is available as a PDF book here:

I scanned the topics; the book looks interesting.

His blog also has some updates related to the subject.

Speaking of PDF, if you want to create simple PDF ebooks, check out my xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation, and my various blog posts about xtopdf's different features and applications.

For PDF ebook creation with xtopdf, specifically look for
posts about ebooks and posts about XMLtoPDFBook.

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vitess - scalable RPC interface to MySQL, used by YouTube

vitess - Scaling MySQL databases for the web - Google Project Hosting

Vitess, used at YouTube, is a scalable RPC interface to MySQL, with sharding, limited ACID support, Python and Go client interfaces, and other features.

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Post on deflationary economics by Mark Suster

The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Seen via another Suster post retweeted about by @Phaseit.

Interesting, but caveat lector. IOW, it may only apply to startups that can scale.

- Vasudev Ram
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