Scaling to satiate demand
Akash Garg, CTO of hi5 Networks, Inc.
Sandy Jen, Co-founder and VP of Engineering of Meebo
Jeremiah Robison, Chief Technology Officer at Slide
Jonathan Heiliger, VP of Technical Operations, Facebook
Lew Moorman, CMO of Rackspace
Raj Patel, VP Network Systems & Storage Engineering, Yahoo

How much of
scalability is
architecture,
and how
much is
throwing
servers at the
problem?

When’s it broken?
When did you know your first
architecture was broken?

Too many moving parts?
How do two systems like Slide and
Facebook figure out where the problems
are?

Off-the-shelf vs. custom
Did you roll your own?
Do you regret it?