socialmedian: Scaling Bumper Sticker: A 1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook RoR App

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Scaling Bumper Sticker: A 1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook RoR App

Submitted by Daniel J Pritchett

Aug 18, 2008

Summary

Several months ago I attended a Joyent presentation where the spokesman hinted that Joyent had the chops to support a one billion page per month Facebook Ruby on Rails application. Even under a few seconds of merciless grilling he would not give up the name of the application. Now we have the big reveal: it was LinkedIn's Bumper Sticker app. For those not currently sticking things on bumps, Bumper Sticker is quite surprisingly a viral media sharing application that allows users to express their individuality by sticking small virtual stickers on Facebook profiles. At the time I was quite curious how Joyent's cloud approach could be leveraged for this kind of app. Now that they've released a few details, we get to find out. Read the full article

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