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Anatomy of a Crushing (Pinboard Blog)

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Articles Scaling Development
Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.

Macieg Ceglowski breaks down what happened during the mass exodus from Delicious and how the Pinboard team dealt with the huge influx of users that resulted from that event. It’s a great analysis of how they coped the traffic increase, and what kinds of measures they needed to take in order to scale to meet the new demand. There’s a nice summary at the end of lessons learned from this, particularly what they did well, and what they should have done differently.

If you’re a developer looking to make any kind of scalable service, it’s worth a read.

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