Sessions at Surge 2010 about PostgreSQL and Scaling

Friday 1st October 2010

• Scaling myYearbook.com - Lessons Learned From Rapid Growth

  by Gavin M. Roy

  myYearbook.com is one of the top 25 most trafficked websites in the United States, experiencing large scale growth over a very short period of time. Employing technologies such as PHP, PostgreSQL, memcached as well as newer cutting edge technologies, myYearbook.com has been able to achieve operational stability in the face of large volumes of traffic. In this talk Gavin will review the growing pains and methodologies used to handle the consistent growth and demand while affording the rapid development cycles required by the product development team.

  • Memcached
  • PHP
  • PostgreSQL
  • Scaling

  At 10:00am to 11:00am, Friday 1st October

  Coverage video slide deck