Growing (up) is hard

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Building systems that can guarantee performance and availability while scaling up to handle exponential growth in datasets and user requests is still very much a Dark Art. It is an art we master quite well by now at Amazon but it took a lot of growing pains to get to this level of sophistication.

At least someone at Technorati has a sense of humor about their pains…


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