What type of hosting Developers love it Its good for fast, agile teams We hit scalability issues, but Twitter hitting them first! So far, its been solvable Not enough CPU. Doubled spend on machines. Split Web servers from App servers As system gets load, some parts of system get used more, code needs to be optimized Database scaling issues currently Solving problems as they arise, but architecting for scaling Dedicated hosting provider is compromise Having tech resources outside organization you can call on Reduces initial expense Good sys admins harder to find than good devs
Customer requests? At any given time List of 15 to-do features Many bugs to fix Customer requests
This workshop is more about building large-scale web products, rather than web products for niche markets, consulting scenarios