Monday, December 28, 2009

Highscalability.com - Flickr Architecture

Update: Flickr hits 2 Billion photos served. That's a lot of hamburgers.

Flickr is both my favorite bird and the web's leading photo sharing site. Flickr has an amazing challenge, they must handle a vast sea of ever expanding new content, ever increasing legions of users, and a constant stream of new features, all while providing excellent performance. How do they do it?
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